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sell out verb phrase To sell off (one’s land), move (one’s household).

1939 Hall Coll (Wears Cove TN) I had to move down here because the park bought us out up there, run us out. We sold out our land to the park up there. 1957 GSMNP-23:1:4 I sold it out, sold this out and bought up back on the Two Mile Branch. 1969 GSMNP-43:17 No, they had sold out, I think. Most of the people had sold out and left the creek. 1998 Dante OHP-45 I thought “well, I'll sell this place out.” I was offered a hundred thousand dollars for it.