exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
(verb) eliminate (a substance); ācombustion products are exhausted in the engineā; āthe plant releases a gasā
squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject
(verb) cause to come out in a squirt; āthe boy squirted water at his little sisterā
eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out
(verb) put out or expel from a place; āThe unruly student was excluded from the gameā
eject
(verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
Source: WordNet® 3.1
eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)
(transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
(transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
(US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
(intransitive) To project oneself from an aircraft.
(transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
(intransitive) To come out of a machine.
• (compel (someone) to leave): boot out, discharge, dismiss, drive out, evict, expel, kick out, oust, toss, turf out; see also kick out
• (throw out forcefully): throw out
• (compel (a sports player) to leave the field): kick out, send off (UK), toss
• (cause (something) to come out of a machine): remove
• (project oneself from an aircraft): bail out
• (come out of a machine): come out
eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)
(psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Source: Wiktionary
E*ject", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] Etym: [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.
2. (Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; āinventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobilesā
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