Dictionary entry details
• EJECT (verb)
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
turf out; eject; expel; chuck out; boot out; kick out; throw out; exclude; turn out
Context example:
The child was expelled from the classroom
Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):
bump; dislodge; displace (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
bounce (eject from the premises)
show the door (ask to leave)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Eliminate (substances) from the body
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
eject; discharge; release; expel
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):
cough out; cough up; expectorate; spit out; spit up (discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth)
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
fester; maturate; suppurate (ripen and generate pus)
eruct; spew; spew out (eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical)
bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood (lose blood from one's body)
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)
ovulate (produce and discharge eggs)
abort (terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion)
ejaculate (eject semen)
blow (free of obstruction by blowing air through)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Cause to come out in a squirt
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
squirt; eject; squeeze out; force out
Context example:
the boy squirted water at his little sister
Hypernyms (to "eject" is one way to...):
discharge (pour forth or release)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eject"):
spritz (eject (a liquid) quickly)
extravasate (force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
