OUSTING

ouster, ousting

(noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

ousting

present participle of oust

Noun

ousting (plural oustings)

The act by which somebody is ousted.

Anagrams

• Guintos, outings, outsing, sign out, sign-out, signout, sing out, tousing

Source: Wiktionary


OUST

Oust, n.

Definition: See Oast.

Oust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ousted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ousting.] Etym: [OF. oster, F. Ă´ter, prob. fr. L. obstare to oppose, hence, to forbid, take away. See Obstacle, and cf. Ouster.]

1. To take away; to remove. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale.

2. To eject; to turn out. Blackstone. From mine own earldom foully ousted me. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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