follow out

verb

followed out; following out; follows out

transitive verb

1
: to follow to the end or to a conclusion
2
: carry out, execute
followed out their orders

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Coming up next Tanner Houck will return to the mound on Wednesday to face the Minnesota Twins, and he will be followed out of the bullpen by Aroldis Chapman, Garrett Whitlock and Cooper Criswell. — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025 Rather than obey, Sassoon honorably resigned and she was followed out the door by several other career prosecutors in Manhattan and D.C. Clement, like Sassoon, was a clerk for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and has a long history of fealty to the rule of law. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1662, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of follow out was in 1662

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“Follow out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/follow%20out. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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