transitive. To expel, reject, or get rid of; to dismiss from a place, office, rank, etc.; to deprive (of a possession). Frequently with from, of.

To put down from office or authority; esp. to put down from sovereignty, to dethrone. (The earliest and still the prevailing sense.)

transitive. To remove (a person) from a position or office; to dismiss. Also in extended use.

transitive. To remove or turn out of office, employment, or possession; to depose, dismiss; to dispossess. Cf. to put out of —— 3 at phrasal verbs 2.

To bring low, debase; to depose from office; to put down, quell. Obsolete.

To keep (a person) out of (†from) what he would otherwise have; to debar from.

transitive. To put out, expel, dismiss, evict. Also: to exclude, bar. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

transitive. To put (a person) out of an office or position; to dismiss; to bring about a dismissal. Also: to transfer (a person) to a new office…

transitive. To eject (a person) from a place or building forcibly, suddenly, or unceremoniously; to expel (a person) from an organization…

transitive. To depose from office or authority; to dethrone; to diminish in status or dignity.

transitive. spec. To strip or divest (a person) of, or remove fro (also from), an office, rank, dignity, etc. Also with double object. Also…

= to set down at phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete.

transitive. To depose or dismiss from office or authority.

transitive. To remove or dismiss (a person), esp. from an office or position.

transitive. To remove (a person) from an appointed office; to undo the appointment of; to deprive of or dismiss from a position of authority, etc…

transitive. To deprive (a person) of a particular rank or office; to depose.

To send away or remove from office, employment, or position; to discharge, discard, expel. Const. from, †of, and double object.

transitive. To dismiss (from an appointment), discard; to deprive of.

To dismiss or remove from a situation or position. Obsolete.

Phrases. to setor put beside (or besides) the cushion: to turn (any one) out of his place or position; to depose, set aside; to deprive or…

transitive. To release (a person) from, or to free of, something onerous, esp. a duty, task, or responsibility; (also) to free of some weight or…

To discharge, dismiss; disband, cashier.

To remove from a position, dignity, or office.

transitive. †To reject or annul the authority of.

To expel or depose (a person) from position or office; to thrust out. Obsolete.

To banish, expel from a country; to put out of an office or out of membership of a society. (Cf. exclude, v. II.) Obsolete.

To expel from a dignity or office. Also, To turn out, evict (a person) from property or possessions; esp. in Law.

transitive. To deprive of a post; to dismiss or drive from a post or position.

transitive. To discharge, dismiss, cashier.

transitive. To throw overboard.

To throw or set aside, reject, discard; esp. to set aside as disqualified; to reject (horses) as unfit; to dismiss (soldiers, etc.).

transitive. To set aside, separate. To remove from membership of a body, or from a public office or station. Obsolete.

figurative. To relieve (a person) of his or her duties; to retire (a person), make (a person) redundant; (also) to cease using (a thing).

transitive. To dismiss from service or fellowship. generally. Obsolete (except as in 2b).

transitive. To dismiss, cast out from a position or office. Obsolete.

transitive. To depose (a person) from office or authority; esp. to remove (a monarch) from the throne. rare after 18th cent.

To dislodge from some place or position; to deprive of rank or office.

figurative (largely from 5). To reduce to an inferior position, degrade, depose (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of or depose from office.

transitive. To remove from office or some other position; to cause to stand down; to dismiss. Now rare.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1c.)

spec. To deprive of dignity or office; to depose. [modern French destituer.]

In immaterial sense and figurative: To elevate, raise. Also with out, up, and adverbial phrases. †to lift (a person) out: to get (him) displaced…

transitive. To cause or (in later use esp.) compel (a person) to give up an office or position.

transitive. †To release, discharge (obsolete); to put an end to, kill. Cf. quietus, n.

transitive. To dismiss or discharge from office on account of age; esp. to cause to retire from service on a pension; to pension off.

‘To remove from place or office, as the personal staff of a principal military officer’ (Webster 1828). Obsolete.

figurative. To lay aside as on a shelf, to put away or up as done with. To remove (a person) from active service. Also reflexive.

transitive. To lay on the shelf, shelve.

(See quot. 1913.)

transitive. Chiefly colloquial. To dismiss, discard, or dispose of (a person or thing); esp. to remove (a person) from a position of power or…

To remove (officials, etc.) to save expenditure; to cut down (expenditure, etc.) by means of ‘the axe’.

transitive. To compel (a person) to leave active military service. Later also: to remove (a person) from office or employment, esp. before the usual…