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Force out   /fɔrs aʊt/   Listen
Force out

noun
1.
A putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base.  Synonyms: force, force-out, force play.
verb
1.
Force to leave (an office).  Synonym: depose.
2.
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.  Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate.  "The company terminated 25% of its workers"  Antonym: hire.
3.
Force or drive out.  Synonyms: drive out, rouse, rout out.
4.
Press, force, or thrust out of a small space.  Synonym: crowd out.
5.
Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.  Synonym: evict.
6.
Cause to come out in a squirt.  Synonyms: eject, squeeze out, squirt.
7.
Force with the thumb.  Synonym: gouge.
8.
Emit or cause to move with force of effort.  "Force out the splinter"





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"Force out" Quotes from Famous Books



... good! But we want your body now. You must tuck your bowie-knife and your revolvers in your belt, and take your rifle in your hand, and be ready to help us drive the Mexican force out of ...
— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr
... Constance.] Daughter of Ruggieri, king of Sicily, who, being taken by force out of a monastery where she had professed, was married to the Emperor Henry Vl. and by him was mother to Frederick 11. She was fifty years old or more at the time, and "because it was not credited that she could have a child at that age, she was delivered in a pavilion ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... deep, quick breath. A city of power and swift care for its own. The land of many hands reaching out to the world. And Achilles's head lifted itself under the sky; and a mighty force knit within him—a deep, quiet force out of the soul ...
— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee
... suffering victims of the flood were told, and the miles and miles of desolated country struck horror to the heart. They have a pregnant saying down there: "Come hell and high water." Some day, it is to be hoped, we are going to take the force out of ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall
... I had as favourable an opening as I could wish for to declare my errand. I told her that the King of France my brother was averse to engaging in foreign war, and the more so as the Huguenots in his kingdom were too strong to admit of his sending any large force out of it. "My brother Alencon," said I, "has sufficient means, and might be induced to undertake it. He has equal valour, prudence, and benevolence with the King my brother or any of his ancestors. He has been bred to arms, and is ...
— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre


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