RIDE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ride out mean? 

• RIDE OUT (verb)
  The verb RIDE OUT has 1 sense:

1. hang on during a trial of endurance

  Familiarity information: RIDE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hang on during a trial of endurance

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

last out; outride; ride out; stay

Context example:

ride out the storm

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ride out"):

outstay (surpass in staying power)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"Like scoring a plate of glass, the trough renders the shelf weak, and in a few decades, it's gone, freeing the ice sheet to ride out faster into the ocean."

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

Another day, Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out together; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the carriage, and away they drove.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I then mentioned—not knowing what might be lost if we lost sight of him yet—that it would give me great pleasure to introduce him to my aunt, if he would ride out to Highgate, where a bed was at his service.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)