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OUT OF IT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unaware as a result of being uninformed
Classified under:
Similar:
incognizant; unaware ((often followed by 'of') not aware)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unresponsive to stimulation
Example:
drugged and senseless
Synonyms:
insensible; out of it; senseless
Classified under:
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Excluded from an activity or social group
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
Context examples:
They alighted out of the coach near a small foot-path in a field, and Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling box, I went out of it to walk.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His features were regular, but too relaxed: his eye was large and well cut, but the life looking out of it was a tame, vacant life—at least so I thought.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A pretty world it would be with all the women out of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was afraid of catching cold I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She had talked her into love; but, alas! she was not so easily to be talked out of it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I thought I had squeezed all the juice out of it, but I see there was a little over,” he said.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It chanced that I was the cause of it, and as great events sprang out of it, I must tell you how it came about.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For mind you, it's serious, young Hawkins; and neither you nor me's come out of it with what I should make so bold as to call credit.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Jekyll,” said Utterson, “you know me: I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She took charge of him, lifting his head to keep the blood out of it and despatching me to the cabin for a pillow.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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