Eject

[ɪ'dʒekt] or [ɪ'dʒɛkt]

Definition

(verb.) put out or expel from a place; 'The unruly student was excluded from the game'.

(verb.) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule.

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Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.

Editor: Lorna

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Emit, discharge, void, evacuate, vomit, spew, puke, throw out, cast up.[2]. Expel, oust, dismiss, discharge, cashier, turn out.[3]. Reject, banish, throw aside, cast away, throw overboard.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Cast, throw, discharge, dislodge, emit, thrust_out, oust, cast_out, expel,extrude, evert

ANT:Accept, receive, retain, house, store, lodge, accommodate, admit, welcome,introduce, inject

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Definition

v.t. to cast out: to dismiss: to dispossess of: to expel.—ns. E′ject a coinage of Prof. Clifford for an inferred existence a thing thrown out of one's own consciousness as distinguished from object a thing presented in one's consciousness; Ejec′tion discharge: expulsion: state of being ejected: vomiting: that which is ejected.—adj. Ejec′tive.—ns. Eject′ment expulsion; dispossession: (law) an action for the recovery of the possession of land; Eject′or one who ejects or dispossesses another of his land: any mechanical apparatus for ejecting.

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