write out

To put all the words or information on paper or a screen, without leaving parts out.

• Please write out your full name.
• She wrote out the instructions for me.
• Can you write these numbers out in words?

How to use it: write something out (Write your address out in full.)

Similar words: write in full

Opposites: abbreviate

Common phrases: write out something, write out instructions

To prepare a ticket or official document by adding the required information.

• The officer wrote out a parking ticket.
• She wrote out a citation for speeding.
• He was writing out another ticket when we arrived.

How to use it: write something out for someone (The officer wrote a ticket out for the driver.)

Similar words: fill out, prepare

Common phrases: write out a ticket, write out a citation

To make a character leave a story or television series by changing what happens in it.

• They wrote out her character last season.
• The writers wrote him out by sending him abroad.
• Will the actor be written out of the show?

How to use it: write someone out of something (They wrote the detective out of the series.)

Similar words: remove

Common phrases: write out someone, write out a character

To leave someone or something out of a written account of events.

• The official history wrote out their contribution.
• His rivals tried to write him out of the story.
• Many workers were written out of the historical record.

How to use it: write someone/something out of something (The account writes women out of the movement’s history.)

Similar words: omit, exclude

Opposites: include

Common phrases: write out someone, write out something

To make yourself unable to think of more to write because you have written too much.

• He feared he had written himself out.
• Writing three novels in a year nearly wrote her out.
• Can a young author write himself out so soon?

How to use it: write oneself out (After years of daily columns, she had written herself out.)

Common phrases: write out oneself, write out completely