open out

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open out (third-person singular simple present opens out, present participle opening out, simple past and past participle opened out)

  1. To expand, to widen, to unwrap, unfold or uncover, to spread out from a compact state.
    • 1954 July, C. R. L. Coles, “Memories of the Great Central”, in Railway Magazine, page 464:
      Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.
    • 1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:
      To obtain the required overhead clearance at Stockport, it will be necessary to open out the Edgeley tunnels.

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