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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"

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

... all its violence against the tents, while the rain poured off in torrents. One moment the canvas of the tents would bulge in, and the cords which held it strain and crack; at another, an eddy of wind would force out the canvas, which would flap and flap, while the rain found many an entrance. The tent in which Mrs Seagrave and the children reposed was on the outside of the others, and therefore the most exposed. About midnight the wind burst on them with greater violence than before. A loud crash was heard ...

— Masterman Ready - The Wreck of the "Pacific" • Captain Frederick Marryat

... niggers waited on the rest. Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments; and the people all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so—said "How DO you get biscuits to brown so nice?" and "Where, for the land's sake, DID you get these amaz'n pickles?" and all that kind of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... loved my telescopes and my isodermic super-spectroscopes. And there was still much work I had to do! Already I had discovered three new elements, and that had showed me I was but at the beginning of a knowledge of cosmological chemistry. Forbes! He had brought me by force out here on this beastly little planet whose orbit was like that of a snake with the Saint Vitus' dance! He had taken me to this wretched planet which lay at such a remote end of the Universe that not even explorers had been tempted ...

— The Winged Men of Orcon - A Complete Novelette • David R. Sparks

... 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 ...

— Memoirs And Historical Chronicles Of The Courts Of Europe - Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici • Various

... Island, forbade the carrying away of any Person by force out of the State; forbade the official aiding in the arrest or detention of a Fugitive Slave; and denied her jails to the United States ...

— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

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