Exit \Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See
   Exeunt, Issue.]
   He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit
   Macbeth.
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   Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt (
         they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate
         the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of
         the actors.
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	Exit \Ex"it\, n. [See 1st Exit.]
   1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has
      performed his part.
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            They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak.
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   2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or
      of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
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            Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper.
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   3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way
      out.
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            Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits.
                                                  --Woodward.
      Exitial

	

	exit
     n 1: an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the
          way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: issue,
           outlet, way out]
     2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
        passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, expiration,
         going, release]
     3: the act of going out
     v 1: move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive
          has left the country" [syn: go out, get out, leave]
          [ant: enter]
     2: lose the lead
     3: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
        and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
        cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The
        patient went peacefully" [syn: die, decease, perish,
         go, pass away, expire, pass] [ant: be born]

	

	277 Moby Thesaurus words for "exit":
   AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave,
   absquatulation, access, adit, aisle, alley, ambulatory,
   annihilation, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bane, be consumed,
   be getting along, be gone, beat a retreat, beat it,
   biological death, blowhole, bolt, bow out, break out,
   break through, buzz off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist,
   cessation of life, channel, chute, clinical death, cloister,
   colonnade, come away, come forth, come out, communication, conduit,
   connection, corridor, course, covered way, crossing the bar,
   curtains, cut out, death, death knell, debouch, debt of nature,
   decampment, decease, defile, dematerialize, demise, depart,
   departure, desertion, die, die away, die out, disappear,
   disappearance, disappearing act, dispel, disperse, dissipate,
   dissolution, dissolve, ditch, do a fade-out, doom, door, duck out,
   duct, dwindle, dying, ebb of life, egress, egression, elopement,
   emerge, emunctory, end, end of life, ending, entrance, erode,
   erupt, escape, estuary, eternal rest, evacuation, evanesce,
   evaporate, exhaust, exodus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment,
   extraction, fade, fade away, fade out, ferry, final summons,
   find vent, finger of death, flee, flight, floodgate, flume, fly,
   ford, forthcoming, fugitation, gallery, gang along, gate,
   get along, get away, get off, get on, get out, get under way,
   getaway, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, go on furlough,
   go on leave, go out, going, going off, going out, grave,
   hand of death, hasty retreat, hegira, hide, ingress, inlet,
   interchange, intersection, issue, issue forth, jaws of death,
   junction, knell, lane, last debt, last muster, last rest,
   last roundup, last sleep, leak out, leave, leave no trace,
   leave the scene, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loophole,
   loss of life, make an exit, making an end, march off, march out,
   melt, melt away, mosey, move, move away, move off, move out,
   ooze out, opening, out, outcome, outcoming, outfall, outgate,
   outgo, outgoing, outlet, overpass, parting, pass, pass away,
   pass out, passage, passageway, passing, passing away, passing over,
   perish, perishing, pore, port, portico, pull out, quick exit,
   quietus, quit, railroad tunnel, release, removal, rest, retire,
   retire from sight, retirement, retreat, reward, run, run out,
   running away, sally port, sashay, sashay off, scramming,
   sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sink,
   sink away, skedaddle, skedaddling, sleep, slip away, slip off,
   slip out, sluice, sneak out, somatic death, spiracle, spout,
   stagger along, suffer an eclipse, summons of death, take a walk,
   take flight, take leave, take off, take wing, tap, toddle along,
   traject, trajet, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel,
   underpass, up and go, vanish, vanish from sight, vent, ventage,
   venthole, vomitory, walk out, walkout, waste, waste away, way,
   way out, wear away, weir, wing it, withdraw, withdrawal

	

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