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CHUCK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Example:
The unruly student was excluded from the game
Synonyms:
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "chuck out" is one way to...):
expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chuck out"):
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
show the door (ask to leave)
bounce (eject from the premises)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Example:
Put away your worries
Synonyms:
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "chuck out" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chuck out"):
unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)
deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)
jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)
junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))
waste (get rid of)
dump (throw away as refuse)
retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)
de-access (dispose of by selling)
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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