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Another word for eject

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Verb

  1. To send forth (confined matter) violently

    See also:

    explosion

  2. To put out by force

    Idioms:
    See also:

    keep

  3. To catapult oneself from a disabled aircraft

    See also:

    approach

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Another word for eject

Verb

  1. To remove physically

  2. To remove from a social or economic position

    See also:

    dismiss

Synonym Study

  • Oust implies the getting rid of something undesirable, as by force or the action of law to oust corrupt officials
  • Dismiss suggests a rejection of or refusal to consider some matter the judge dismissed the case, dismissed such thoughts from my mind and often refers to the removal of an employee dismissed for incompetence
  • Evict refers to the forcing out, as of a tenant, by legal procedure
  • Expel suggests a driving out, as by force, specif. a forcing out of a country, organization, etc., often in disgrace expelled from school
  • Eject , the term of broadest application here, implies generally a throwing or casting out from within forcibly ejected from the room
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Sentence Examples

  • The Union Civica then decided to make a bold bid for freedom by attempting forcibly to eject Celman and his clique from office.

  • Each secular prince had the right to eject from his land all those who would not accept the form of religion establisiled therein; thus the principle of cujus regio ejus religio was set up. Althoug~h the Lutherans did not gain all their demands, they won solid advantages and were allowed to keep all ecclesiastical property secularized before the peace of Passau.

  • sought to eject from office, afterwards bishop of Oxford, Lichfield, and Worcester; and John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor of England.

  • To eject the advocate from power was one thing, to execute him as a traitor quite another.

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