单词 | eject |
释义 | eject I. 1. a. < he was being ejected for taunting the pianist — Brooks Atkinson > b. < the membership ejected the chairman by acclamation > c. < ejected for nonpayment of rent > 2. a. < a mechanism that ejects the empty cases from the gun > b. < an electron ejected from an atom of copper > c. obsolete < every look … mine eyes ejects — Ben Jonson > Synonyms: < cones of material ejected from the volcanoes — W.E.Swinton > < the solar system had been formed out of matter ejected from the sun — S.F.Mason > < no solid bank of smoke ejected itself from the breastworks — Kenneth Roberts > < a roaring fire ejecting sparks — T.S.Eliot > < cowboys forcibly eject the farmers from their places in line — American Guide Series: Texas > expel, stressing a thrusting out or driving away, implies more generally a voluntary compulsion than eject, indicating more generally an intent to get permanently rid of < expel the air from the lungs > < the fish and the bird, which expel the egg from the body — H.M.Parshley > < he was arrested … then expelled from the city with the warning never to come back — Current Biography > < expelled from his seat in the Senate for plotting with the British — R.B.Morris > oust implies removal or dispossession by the power of a law or the exercise of force or compulsion < to oust squatters from his property — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < the first explorers were the Genoese, who had been ousted from the Levant trade by the Venetians — S.F.Mason > < Ferdinand … ousted the local king from Navarre — Francis Hackett > evict now means to turn out (of house and home, one's place of business, or the like) by legal or equally effective means, commonly for nonpayment of rent < after two months the landlord had the tenants evicted for rowdyism and destruction of property besides nonpayment > < Roger Williams, rebel against the Puritans and evicted by them from the sacred confines of Massachusetts — R.W.Hatch > < thousands of crofters were evicted to make way for large sheep farms — London Calling > dismiss stresses a getting rid of (something) by refusing it further consideration, ejecting it from the thoughts, or taking steps to ensure its no longer annoying one < nonviolence as a political weapon … should not be dismissed lightly — African Abstracts > < a very downright sort of Yankee, given to dismissing people who disagreed with him — Charlton Laird > < dismiss an enemy by having him deported > II. |
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