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write out

verb

  1. issue
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To write at full length or in expanded form.

    Don't use abbreviations; write out words!

  2. To write or fill out (a ticket or citation).
  3. To exclude from a narrative or history.

    The temperance movement was driven by women, but we let ourselves be written out of that because it gave us a bad name.

    Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History.

  4. To remove (a character in a fictional series such as a TV show) by writing the script so as to explain their disappearance (through death, moving away, etc.).

    “Jussie Smollett continues to be a consummate professional on set and as we have previously stated, he is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a joint statement released on Wednesday.

  5. To exhaust one's mental capacity by too much writing.