Synonyms of coming out

Verb


1. come on, come out, turn up, surface, show up, appear

usage: appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"

2. appear, come out, happen, materialize, materialise

usage: be issued or published; "Did your latest book appear yet?"; "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet"

3. issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress

usage: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"

4. turn out, come out, end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

usage: result or end; "How will the game turn out?"

5. come out, fall out, issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress

usage: come off; "His hair and teeth fell out"

6. place, come in, come out, rank

usage: take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal; "Jerry came in third in the Marathon"

7. come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out, act, move

usage: make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"

8. start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out, change shape, change form, deform

usage: bulge outward; "His eyes popped"

9. come out of the closet, out, come out, unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out

usage: to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality; "This actor outed last year"

10. out, come out

usage: be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"

11. erupt, come out, break through, push through, appear

usage: break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"

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