noun
- The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.
- synonyms: expulsion, projection, ejection
verb
- Force to leave (an office.
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
- Force or drive out.
- usage: "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A. M."
- Press, force, or thrust out of a small space.
- usage: "The weeds crowded out the flowers"
- Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.
- usage: "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"
- Cause to come out in a squirt.
- usage: "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
- synonyms: squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject
- Force with the thumb.
- usage: "gouge out his eyes"
- Emit or cause to move with force of effort.
- usage: "force out the air"; "force out the splinter"
- synonyms: force out
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