issue
/ˈɪʃ(j)u/ verb B2- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. · The water issued forth from the spring.· The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
- To rush out, to sally forth. · The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
- To extend into, to open onto. · The road issues into the highway.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- To send out; to put into circulation. · The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
- To deliver for use. · The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
- To deliver by authority. · The court issued a writ of mandamus.
He/she/it issues · Past issued · Past participle issued · -ing form issuing
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And the cry issued from his pores, if we may thus speak—a cry frightful in its silence.
After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.
It seemed as though my soul were already hovering over my body, my eyes, which I tried to open, closed against my will, and what will appear impossible above all to you, sir, I saw, with my eyes shut, in the spot where you are now standing, issuing from that corner where there is a door leading into Madame Villefort’s dressing-room—I saw, I tell you, silently enter, a white figure.”
He looked around for a chimney from which no smoke issued, and having reached it, he disappeared through the orifice without being seen by anyone.
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