time out
verb- To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit. · The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.
- To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
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It was therefore near seven o’clock; but Edmond’s anxiety had put all thoughts of time out of his head.
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