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KICK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
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:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
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:
Somebody ----s somebody
