(idiomatic) Using the voice; not silently; aloud.

A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.

(idiomatic) Traveling; out; moving; engaged in day-to-day activities.

(idiomatic) To discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue; to thwart or minimize someone's ambitions.

(idiomatic) Inconsistent with one's personality, disposition, or usual expected behaviour.

(idiomatic) To divide into portions or chunks; to ration.

(transitive) To destroy by fire. / (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel. / (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).

(idiomatic) (of a person) The condition of tiredness due to overwork.

The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime. / The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.

(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.