egress

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Act of going out

Nouns

1. egress, exit, issue, emergence, eruption, emanation, exudation, percolation, weeping, leakage, oozing, dripping; gush, efflux, outpouring, effluence, effusion, drain, drainage, outflow, runoff; discharge (see excretion); exportation].

2. (act of leaving) export, expatriation, emigration, exodus, exile, departure.

3. outlet, vent, spout, tab, sluice, floodgate; exit, way out, mouth, pore, opening; port, terminus.

4. goer, departer; emigré[e], emigrant, migrant, colonist. Informal, refusenik.

Verbs

1. emerge, emanate, issue, pass off; exit, exeunt, depart, escape; emigrate; export.

2. leak, run out, percolate, exude, strain, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow, well out, pour, trickle; effuse, debouch, come forth, break or burst out, fall out, let out.

Adjectives — emergent, emerging, outgoing, emanative, effluent, eruptive, leaky; migrant.

Adverbs — out, from, away, forth.

Prepositions — out of, from, away from, forth.

Antonyms, see ingress.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A going out]

Syn. departure, emergence, escape; see departure 1 .

2. [A place of exit]

Syn. doorway, passage, way out; see exit 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

doorway, outlet. see exit

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The act of leaving: departure, exit, exodus, going, withdrawal. See APPROACH.