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| n. (act) | 1. force, force out, force play, force-out | a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base.; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" |
| ~ putout | an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout).; "the first baseman made 15 putouts" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (social) | 2. depose, force out | force to leave (an office). |
| ~ boot out, drum out, oust, expel, kick out, throw out | remove from a position or office.; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" |
| ~ overthrow, subvert, bring down, overturn | cause the downfall of; of rulers.; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" |
| v. (social) | 3. can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ pension off | let go from employment with an attractive pension.; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" |
| ~ clean out | force out.; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" |
| ~ furlough, lay off | dismiss, usually for economic reasons.; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" |
| ~ squeeze out | force out.; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
| v. (motion) | 4. drive out, force out, rouse, rout out | force or drive out.; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back | force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" |
| ~ hunt | chase away, with as with force.; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
| ~ smoke out | drive out with smoke.; "smoke out the bees" |
| v. (motion) | 5. crowd out, force out | press, force, or thrust out of a small space.; "The weeds crowded out the flowers" |
| ~ displace | cause to move, usually with force or pressure.; "the refugees were displaced by the war" |
| v. (contact) | 6. evict, force out | expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" |
| ~ evict | expel or eject without recourse to legal process.; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." |
| ~ eject, turf out, boot out, chuck out, exclude, turn out | put out or expel from a place.; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" |
| v. (contact) | 7. eject, force out, squeeze out, squirt | cause to come out in a squirt.; "the boy squirted water at his little sister" |
| ~ spritz | eject (a liquid) quickly.; "spritz water on a surface" |
| ~ extravasate | force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel. |
| ~ discharge | pour forth or release.; "discharge liquids" |
| v. (contact) | 8. force out, gouge | force with the thumb.; "gouge out his eyes" |
| ~ mar, mutilate | destroy or injure severely.; "mutilated bodies" |
| v. (body) | 9. force out | emit or cause to move with force of effort.; "force out the air"; "force out the splinter" |
| ~ emit, pass off, breathe | expel (gases or odors). |
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