write out

écrire en toutes lettres, écrire intégralement

Écrire tous les mots ou renseignements sur papier ou à l’écran, sans rien omettre ni abréger.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : write something out (Write your address out in full.)

Synonymes : write in full

Contraires : abbreviate

Expressions courantes : write out something, write out instructions

remplir, dresser

Préparer un billet ou un document officiel en y inscrivant les renseignements nécessaires.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : write something out for someone (The officer wrote a ticket out for the driver.)

Synonymes : fill out, prepare

Expressions courantes : write out a ticket, write out a citation

faire disparaître un personnage

Modifier l’intrigue pour qu’un personnage quitte une histoire ou une série télévisée.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : write someone out of something (They wrote the detective out of the series.)

Synonymes : remove

Expressions courantes : write out someone, write out a character

omettre, exclure

Ne pas inclure une personne ou une chose dans un récit écrit des événements.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : write someone/something out of something (The account writes women out of the movement’s history.)

Synonymes : omit, exclude

Contraires : include

Expressions courantes : write out someone, write out something

s’épuiser à force d’écrire

Écrire tellement qu’on n’arrive plus à trouver de nouvelles choses à écrire.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : write oneself out (After years of daily columns, she had written herself out.)

Expressions courantes : write out oneself, write out completely