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exited

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ex⋅it

1  [eg-zit, ek-sit]
–noun
1. a way or passage out: Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
2. any of the marked ramps or spurs providing egress from a highway: Take the second exit after the bridge for the downtown shopping district.
3. a going out or away; departure: to make one's exit.
4. a departure of an actor from the stage as part of the action of a play.
5. Also called exit card. Bridge. a card that enables a player to relinquish the lead when having it is a disadvantage.
–verb (used without object)
6. to go out; leave.
7. Bridge. to play an exit card.
–verb (used with object)
8. to leave; depart from: Sign out before you exit the building.
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Origin:
1580–90; partly < L exitus act or means of going out, equiv. to exi-, var. s. of exīre to go out (ex- ex- 1 + īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action; partly n., v. use of exit 2

ex⋅it

2  [eg-zit, ek-sit]
–verb (used without object)
(he or she) goes offstage (used as a stage direction, often preceding the name of the character): Exit Falstaff.
Origin:
1530–40; < L ex(i)it lit., (he) goes out, 3rd sing. pres. of exīre; see exit 1
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ex·it   (ěg'zĭt, ěk'sĭt)   
n.  

  1. The act of going away or out.

  2. A passage or way out: an emergency exit in a theater; took the second exit on the throughway.

  3. The departure of a performer from the stage.

  4. Death.

v.   ex·it·ed, ex·it·ing, ex·its

v.   intr.
To make one's exit; depart.
v.   tr.

  1. To go out of; leave: exited the plane through a rear door.

  2. Computer Science To terminate the execution of (an application): exited the subroutine.


[From Latin, third person sing. of exīre, to go out : ex-, ex- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 2, from Latin exitus, from past participle of exīre.]
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Word Origin & History

exit  (n.)
1538, from L. exit "he or she goes out," third pers. sing. pres. indicative of exire "go out," from ex- "out" + ire "go." Also from L. exitus "a leaving, a going out," noun of action from exire. Originally in Eng. as a stage direction (c.1485); Sense of "door for leaving" is 1786. The verb is 1607, from the noun; the verb in the transitive sense is first recorded 1976, Amer.Eng.; if it can't be killed, it ought to be quarantined in the clunky jargon of police reports.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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