ride out
verb
Simple meaning
To tackle a difficult situation and survive.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
rydowtSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɹaɪˈdaʊt
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
verb
transitiveidiomaticby extension
To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.
transitivenautical
To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.
Used this way, ride out is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This sense is used where position and measurement matter — travel, weather and flight — so it reads as factual rather than emotive.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Geography/travel
- Weather/aviation
- Technical/specialist writing
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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