eject
verb /ɪˈdʒekt/
/ɪˈdʒekt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they eject | /ɪˈdʒekt/ /ɪˈdʒekt/ |
| he / she / it ejects | /ɪˈdʒekts/ /ɪˈdʒekts/ |
| past simple ejected | /ɪˈdʒektɪd/ /ɪˈdʒektɪd/ |
| past participle ejected | /ɪˈdʒektɪd/ /ɪˈdʒektɪd/ |
| -ing form ejecting | /ɪˈdʒektɪŋ/ /ɪˈdʒektɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] eject somebody (from something) (formal) to force somebody to leave a place or position synonym throw somebody out (of…)
- Police ejected a number of violent protesters from the hall.
Extra Examples- He was forcibly ejected from the restaurant.
- They were summarily ejected by the security guard.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- physically
- summarily
- …
- from
- [transitive] eject something (from something) to push something out suddenly and with a lot of force
- Used cartridges are ejected from the gun after firing.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- forcibly
- physically
- summarily
- …
- from
- [intransitive] (of a pilot) to escape from an aircraft that is going to crash, sometimes using an ejector seat
- The pilot managed to eject moments before the plane crashed.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- safely
- from
- [transitive, intransitive] eject (something) when you eject a disk, tape, etc., or when it ejects, it comes out of the machine after you have pressed a button
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin eject- ‘thrown out’, from the verb eicere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + jacere ‘to throw’.