WELL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well out mean? 

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

1. flow freely and abundantly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flow freely and abundantly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

stream; well out

Context example:

Tears streamed down her face

Hypernyms (to "well out" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

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

spin (stream in jets, of liquids)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Yet it will be more honor to us if we come well out of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nor, until well out of sight, did he stop to lick his bleeding wounds.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She was by then, when they told us, well out to sea.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You were well out of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a long running-line coiled down in the stem, I rowed well out into our little cove and dropped the anchor into the water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We had got well out on the country road, when a somewhat mortifying incident occurred.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had begun to be a little uncomfortable, and to wish myself well out of the visit, when a figure coming down the street passed the door—it stood open to air the room, which was warm, the weather being close for the time of year—came back again, looked in, and walked in, exclaiming loudly, Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before the words were well out of his mouth, he was whisked away somehow, and in his place appeared a tall man, muffled up to the eyes, leaning on the arm of another tall man, who tried to say something and couldn't.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The two men had stood up to each other, Jim as light upon his feet as a goat, with his left well out and his right thrown across the lower part of his chest, while Berks held both arms half extended and his feet almost level, so that he might lead off with either side.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With these I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain's reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)