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  Exit
• WordNet 3.6
  • v exit pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life "She died from cancer","The children perished in the fire","The patient went peacefully","The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
  • v exit lose the lead
  • v exit move out of or depart from "leave the room","the fugitive has left the country"
  • n exit the act of going out
  • n exit an opening that permits escape or release "he blocked the way out","the canyon had only one issue"
  • n exit euphemistic expressions for death "thousands mourned his passing"
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Exit the Ministering Angel

• Interesting fact: Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
• • Exit A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out. "Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits ."
  • Exit Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit . "Sighs for his exit , vulgarly called death."
  • Exit He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.☞ The Latin words exithe or she goes out), and exeuntthey go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors.
  • Exit The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part. "They have their exits and their entrances."
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• • n exit A way of departure; a passage out.
  • n exit The departure of a player from the stage when he has performed his part.
  • n exit Hence Any departure; specifically, the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; decease.
  • n exit In plays, a direction to mark the time of an actor's quitting the stage.
  • n exit In phonetics, an off-glide or vanish.
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• • n Exit eks′it a direction in playbooks to an actor to go off the stage: the departure of a player from the stage: any departure: a way of departure: a passage out: a quitting of the world's stage, or life: death
  • v.i Exit to make an exit
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• Tom Stoppard

  

  “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
• Aesop

  

  “Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.”
• Desiderius Erasmus

  

  “Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]”
• Malcolm Muggeridge

  

  “Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.”

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