What's the difference between blurt and out?

Blurt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
  • (2) Blurted out to a person he hoped to impress by whatever means, his words here — and the quickly denied allegations about Australian players — can be dismissed as pub talk.
  • (3) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
  • (4) However, after persistent questioning, I blurted out a response: “I don’t know.
  • (5) When he told her "I'm a fan," she blurted, "I'm going to be naked in a movie!"
  • (6) Then her mother blurted out: "Dad's seeing someone."
  • (7) When a reporter doorstepped him three years ago, he blurted out: "You don't have a gun.
  • (8) "I started supporting FC Barcelona after reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia," blurts Kenneth Fomenky.
  • (9) I would just blurt out, "I breastfed until I was five!"
  • (10) This is not exactly a new strategy for Republicans – it is reminiscent, for example, of the moment when George W Bush, interrogated by Trevor McDonald about pollution, blurted: “Well, I just beg to differ with every figure you’ve got.” But Trump’s version is more radical: an epistemological scorched-earth policy in which no information can be trusted except what issues from the pouting lips of the Dear Leader himself.
  • (11) A minister blurts out something or a document slips loose.
  • (12) I remember once, at the end of a long night, blurting out to a publisher that the story was made up.
  • (13) One of them blurted out, "That's Dr. Carnegie, the first Black nurse!"
  • (14) Under the threat of an investigation by the lord chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, Profumo blurted out the truth to his wife Valerie over lunch in Venice.
  • (15) Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth.
  • (16) Eventually I crack, and blurtingly ask about his eye.
  • (17) The taxidermist invited me to guess again, but before I could he blurted: "It's a Pygmy!"
  • (18) Elizabeth is prone to blurting out aphorisms, such as "it's easier to give a blow job than make coffee" and "you should be just as happy with the breasts you have as you are with the futility of existence".
  • (19) In her acceptance speech, she expressed her sympathies – even if, in the heat of the moment, she blurted out that "education is a privilege not a right", which might well be taken as a prophecy.
  • (20) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.

Out


Definition:

  • (a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.
  • (a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.
  • (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.
  • (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.
  • (a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.
  • (a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.
  • (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.
  • (n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.
  • (n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.
  • (v. t.) To come out with; to make known.
  • (v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.
  • (v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
  • (interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.

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