WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

drum out
    v 1: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted
         after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out,
         drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "drum out":
   boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, chase out,
   deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive,
   dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone,
   dismiss, displace, displume, drive out, excommunicate, expel, fire,
   force out, freeze out, furlough, give the ax, give the gate,
   harry out, hunt out, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out,
   liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off,
   purge, push out, read out of, release, remove, remove from office,
   replace, retire, rout out, run out, sack, separate forcibly,
   smoke out, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate,
   surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle,
   unseat, unthrone