exit

noun6

1. •
   a door or opening that people go through to leave a place
2. •
   An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.

   • emergency exit
   • fire exit
3. •
   A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).

   • There are no services at the next exit.
4. •
   An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

   • He made his exit at the opportune time.
5. •
   The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.

   • All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue their Exits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being seuen ages. — 1598
6. •
   (euphemistic, figurative) The act of departing from life; death.

   • However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men. — 1711

verb8

1. •
   To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
2. •
   To leave a scene or depart from a stage.

   • Desdemona exits stage left.
3. •
   To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

   • More than one-quarter (26 per cent) poor in 1991 exited poverty in 1992. — 1995
4. •
   To alight or disembark from a vehicle.

   • When Walsh exited the "Q" train, he walked three blocks underground on the concourse which took him into the World Trade Center, the twin towers which highlight the skyline of lower Manhattan. — 1994
5. •
   Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

   • I take no monie, but good vvordes, raile not if I tell true, if I doe not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie]. — 1590
6. •
   To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)

   • Common Lisp provides a facility for exiting from a complex process in a non-local, dynamically scoped manner. — 1990
7. •
   (euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.
8. •
   To give up the lead.

   • West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump. — 2014

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.