KICK OUT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Remove from a position or office

Example:

The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds

Synonyms:

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "kick out" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "kick out"):

excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)

depose; force out (force to leave (an office))

Sentence frames:

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Meaning:

Force to leave or move out

Example:

He was expelled from his native country

Synonyms:

expel; kick out; throw out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "kick out" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "kick out"):

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)

deport; exile; expatriate (expel from a country)

debar; suspend (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)

deliver; deport; extradite (hand over to the authorities of another country)

banish; bar; relegate (expel, as if by official decree)

ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun (expel from a community or group)

ban; banish (ban from a place of residence, as for punishment)

Sentence frame:

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