'Eject' definitions:
Definition of 'eject'
(from WordNet)
verb
Put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]
verb
Eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" [syn: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release]
verb
Leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
verb
Cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his little sister" [syn: squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject]
Definition of 'Eject'
From: GCIDE
- Eject \E"ject\, n. [See Eject, v. t.] (Philos.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Eject'
From: GCIDE
- Eject \E*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
- 1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." --H. Brooke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
- Syn: To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'eject'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- abstract,
- alienate,
- axe,
- belch,
- blow open,
- blow out,
- boot out,
- bounce,
- break out,
- bump,
- burst forth,
- burst out,
- cashier,
- cast,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- charge,
- chase,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- cock,
- cut adrift,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debar,
- defenestrate,
- delete,
- depart,
- deport,
- detonate,
- detrude,
- disarticulate,
- disbar,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disconnect,
- disengage,
- disgorge,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- dispose of,
- dispossess,
- dissociate,
- disunite,
- divide,
- divorce,
- drive off,
- drive out,
- drop,
- drum out,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- emit,
- eradicate,
- eruct,
- erupt,
- estrange,
- evict,
- exclude,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- extravasate,
- extrude,
- exude,
- fell,
- fire,
- fire off,
- force out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- give the hook,
- gun,
- gun for,
- heave out,
- hit,
- hurl forth,
- isolate,
- jettison,
- junk,
- kick downstairs,
- kick out,
- lay off,
- leave,
- let fly,
- let off,
- liquidate,
- load,
- make redundant,
- obtrude,
- ooze,
- oust,
- out,
- outlaw,
- part,
- pelt,
- pepper,
- pick off,
- pick out,
- pistol,
- plug,
- pot,
- potshoot,
- potshot,
- prime,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- purge,
- put out,
- reject,
- remove,
- repudiate,
- riddle,
- root out,
- root up,
- rout,
- rule out,
- run off,
- sack,
- segregate,
- send forth,
- send out,
- send packing,
- separate,
- sequester,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shed,
- shoot,
- shoot at,
- shoot down,
- show,
- shut off,
- shut out,
- snipe,
- spew,
- split,
- spout,
- spurn,
- stand aloof,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- step aside,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- subtract,
- take a potshot,
- throw away,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- throw up,
- thrust out,
- torpedo,
- toss out,
- turn out,
- uncouple,
- unyoke,
- vomit,
- vomit forth,
- weed out,
- withdraw