26984 words

outed

2 definitions • 3 examples
1
past simple and past participle of
2
to make known the fact that someone is not heterosexual (= attracted to men if you are a woman and women if you are a man) or cisgender (= having a gender that matches the body you were born with), especially when that person does not want other people to know:

Examples:

Hardly a week went by without someone famous being outed.
She was outed as transgender by a sleazy tabloid.

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