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Noun: let-out
Usage: Brit
  1. A way out of an agreement or difficult situation
    "always write in a let-out clause"
Verb: let out  let awt
  1. Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
    "She let out a big heavy sigh"
    - utter, emit, let loose
     
  2. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
    - unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away
     
  3. Bring out of a specific state
    - bring out
     
  4. Make (clothes) larger
    "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"
    - widen

Derived forms: lets out, letting out, let out

Type of: alter, change, let go, let go of, release, relinquish, tell, vary

Antonym: take in

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let down
let drive
let fly
let go
let go of
let in
let it go
let loose
let off
let on
let out
let rip
let the cat out of the bag
let up
letch
letdown
lethal
lethal agent
lethal dose
lethal gene
lethality