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FORCE OUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Example:
the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Synonyms:
force; force-out; force out; force play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("force out" is a kind of...):
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
Domain category:
ball; 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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emit or cause to move with force of effort
Example:
force out the splinter
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Force with the thumb
Example:
gouge out his eyes
Synonyms:
force out; gouge
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cause to come out in a squirt
Example:
the boy squirted water at his little sister
Synonyms:
eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
discharge (pour forth or release)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
spritz (eject (a liquid) quickly)
extravasate (force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
Example:
The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months
Synonyms:
evict; force out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
Verb group:
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Press, force, or thrust out of a small space
Example:
The weeds crowded out the flowers
Synonyms:
crowd out; force out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Force or drive out
Example:
The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
Synonyms:
drive out; force out; rouse; rout out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "force 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)
Verb group:
chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
hunt (chase away, with as with force)
smoke out (drive out with smoke)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 7
Meaning:
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
Example:
The company terminated 25% of its workers
Synonyms:
can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
retire (make (someone) retire)
pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)
clean out (force out)
furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)
squeeze out (force out)
dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Sense 8
Meaning:
Force to leave (an office)
Synonyms:
depose; force out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out (remove from a position or office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
bring down; overthrow; overturn; subvert (cause the downfall of; of rulers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
