0 past simple and past participle of out --
1 to publish the fact that a famous person is gay, especially when that person does not want it to be known: --
Army psychological-operations officers quickly distributed leaflets designed to convince locals that the general had cooperated and outed key insurgents.
He said that, with the number of people that would have had to be involved, "someone" would have outed the hoax by now.
As court cases proceeded, the military underlings outed their officers.
In many cases, being outed had an adverse effect on their personal lives and their careers.
She was publicly outed in the press in 1996, that resulted in a controversy that led to the resignation of a colleague.
The relationship was eventually outed to the family and the two got engaged.
When the school was outed as harboring mutant students, an anti-mutant group attacked the school.
People have always outed the mailman and the milkman and the spinster who lives down the block.
