Meaning

1 senses
  1. (UK, informal)To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve; to run away or back down from a contest or challenge.

    I had really wanted to dive off the 10-metre platform, but in the end I bottled out.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom opened the bottle and poured out its contents.

    ruТом открыл бутылку и вылил её содержимое.

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  2. Tom got a bottle of beer out of the fridge.

    ruТом достал бутылку пива из холодильника.

    deTom holte eine Flasche Bier aus dem Kühlschrank.

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  3. Tom got a bottle of water out of the fridge.

    ruТом достал бутылку воды из холодильника.

    deTom nahm eine Flasche Wasser aus dem Kühlschrank.

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  4. Tom took a bottle of pills out of his pocket.

    ruТом вынул пузырёк с таблетками из кармана.

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  5. Tom pulled a bottle of bourbon out of his desk drawer.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

bottles out, bottling out, bottled out, bottled out
Base formbottle out · to bottle out
3rd person singularbottles out
Present participlebottling out
Past simplebottled out
Past participlebottled out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybottle out
he, she, itbottles out

Past simpleLesson

all personsbottled out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bottled out
he, she, ithas bottled out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bottle out

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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