mark out
verb1
To mark the boundaries of an area—used of land, wood, metal, etc.—before working upon it.
2
To classify.
- I don't want to be marked out as a failure.
3
To obliterate or cancel with a mark.
- to mark out an item in an account
4
To distinguish.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:
- The killing of more than 90 journalists in Iraq in 43 months after the invasion was to mark it out as one of the deadliest conflicts to cover.2007, Naomi Sakr, Arab Television Today: