write out

English

Verb

write out (third-person singular simple present writes out, present participle writing out, simple past wrote out, past participle written out)

1. (transitive) To write at full length or in expanded form.

   Don't use abbreviations; write out words!

2. (transitive) To write a ticket or citation; to fill out a ticket or citation.
3. (transitive, chiefly television) To exclude (a character in a TV show, etc.) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).
   • 2019 February 20, Sopan Deb, “Fox Stands by Jussie Smollett: ‘He Is Not Being Written Out of the Show’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.

4. (transitive, by extension) To exclude someone from a narrative or history.
   • 2018 April 11, Zoe Williams, “What's the ​best way to get written out of history? Be a middle-aged woman”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name.

   • 2019 May 14, Karen Zraick, Chang W. Lee, “Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. [title]

5. To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.

Translations

to write at full length

• Finnish: kirjoittaa auki
• German: ausschreiben (de)
• Hungarian: kiír (hu)
• Icelandic: skrifa óstyttan texta (is), (writing out abbreviations) skrifa fullum stöfum, (writing out abbreviations) rita fullu stöfum
• Italian: appuntare (it), emettere (it)
• Russian: писа́ть по́лностью (pisátʹ pólnostʹju)

To exclude (a character in a TV show etc.)

Anagrams

• outwrite