eject
VerbSynonyms:
chuck outexcludeturf outboot outturn outexhaustdischargeexpelreleasesquirtforce outsqueeze out
WordNet 3.0
Verb (4)
- put out or expel from a place“The unruly student was excluded from the game”Synonyms: chuck outexcludeturf outboot outturn out
- eliminate (a substance)“combustion products are exhausted in the engine”“the plant releases a gas”Synonyms: exhaustdischargeexpelrelease
- leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
- cause to come out in a squirt“the boy squirted water at his little sister”Synonyms: squirtforce outsqueeze out
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Eject \E*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
1.To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." --H. Brooke. [1913 Webster]
2.(Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Syn: To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void. [1913 Webster]
Eject \E"ject\, n. [See Eject, v. t.] (Philos.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]