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单词 eject
释义 eject
I. \ə̇ˈjekt, ēˈ-\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English ejecten, from Latin ejectus, past participle of eicere, from e- + -icere (from jacere to throw) — more at jet
1.
 a. : to drive (as a person) out especially by physical force : expel
  < he was being ejected for taunting the pianist — Brooks Atkinson >
 b. : to deprive of membership or of a position or office : oust
  < the membership ejected the chairman by acclamation >
 c. : to evict from property : dispossess
  < ejected for nonpayment of rent >
2.
 a. : to throw or force out from within
  < a mechanism that ejects the empty cases from the gun >
 b. : to throw off
  < an electron ejected from an atom of copper >
 c. obsolete : emit
  < every look … mine eyes ejects — Ben Jonson >
Synonyms:
 eject, expel, oust, evict, and dismiss can mean, in common, to force or thrust (a thing or person) out. eject carries the strongest implication of throwing out from within
  < 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. \ˈēˌjekt\ noun
(-s)
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