gets out

Exits a place

Gets out means to exit or leave a place: She gets out of the car.

It extends to escaping confinement or obligation: He gets out of prison next month, She always gets out of doing dishes.

Information gets out when it becomes public: Word gets out fast in small towns.

To get out can also mean to extract or remove: I can't get this stain out.

Related

flee · withdraw · slips away · evacuate · detach · liberate · extricate · abscond · release · untangle · decamp · let go · escape · breaks free · depart · confess · circulates · publishes

Opposites
movement/containment

gets outenters

Goes into a space

goes in · comes in · stays in · gets into · steps in

social participation

gets outstays in

Doesn't go out

holes up · withdraws · hibernates · isolates · cocoons

Family

get, outside, out, outfit, outdoor, outcome, output, get out, gets

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G