Definition of "count out" []

• To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. (verb)
• To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. (verb)
• 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. (verb)

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• "Anything else, were to count out a human instinct which Sir George Grey utilised, when he visited the Kaffir chief Sandilli."
• "It was said that the Aussies had once begun to count out the Prince of Wales."
• "Sally Henny Penny gets rather flustered when she tries to count out change, and she insists on being paid cash; but she is quite harmless."