Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.

    I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.

    They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.

  2. (transitive)To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.

    The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.

  3. (transitive)To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.

    The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.

  4. (transitive)To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.

  5. (transitive)To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.

More definitions
  • declare the loser

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Don't count me out.

    Не скидайте мене з рахунку.

    ruНе сбрасывай меня со счетов.

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  2. Don't count me out so quickly.

    ruНе надо так быстро сбрасывать меня со счетов.

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  3. Don't count out Tom just yet.

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  4. I wouldn't count Tom out just yet.

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  5. Count me out if that's what you're planning to do.

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Forms

counts out, counting out, counted out, counted out
Base formcount out · to count out
3rd person singularcounts out
Present participlecounting out
Past simplecounted out
Past participlecounted out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycount out
he, she, itcounts out

Past simpleLesson

all personscounted out

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill count out

Phrasal verbs

7 phrasal verbs

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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