gut out

gut out
I. transitive verb
Etymology: gut (II) + out
: to remove in the process of gutting

the forests were gutted out and mined in the same fashion as the minerals — Lewis Mumford

II. verb
Etymology: probably alteration (influenced by gut (I) out) of gutter out
: to snuff out

burned so feebly and was so quickly gutted out — Van Wyck Brooks

: to gutter and go out

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ˌgut ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they gut out he/she/it guts out present participle gutting out past tense gutted out past participle gutted out] american informal phrasal verb
to be determined to continue doing something that is difficult or unpleasant

He had gutted out his first semester at military school.

gut it out:

Brad spent his whole career winning matches he shouldn’t have won, just by gutting it out.

Thesaurus: to continue something, or to continue to do somethingsynonym
Main entry: gut

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