Dictionary entry details
• FORCE OUT (noun)
Meaning:
A putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
force out; force play; force-out; force
Context example:
the shortstop got the runner at second on a force
Hypernyms ("force out" is a kind of...):
putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))
Domain category:
baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
• FORCE OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Force to leave (an office)
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
depose; force out
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out (remove from a position or office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
bring down; overthrow; overturn; subvert (cause the downfall of; of rulers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Terminate the employment of
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
give the sack; give the axe; give notice; force out; can; sack; send away; fire; dismiss; terminate
Context examples:
The boss fired his secretary today / The company terminated 25% of its workers
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)
squeeze out (force out)
furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)
clean out (force out)
pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)
retire (make (someone) retire)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Meaning:
Force or drive out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
rout out; rouse; drive out; force out
Context example:
The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.
Hypernyms (to "force out" 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 "force out"):
smoke out (drive out with smoke)
hunt (chase away, with as with force)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Force to move
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
displace; force out
Context example:
the refugees were displaced by the war
Hypernyms (to "force out" 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 "force out"):
transfer; transplant (lift and reset in another soil or situation)
crowd out (press, force, or thrust out of a small space)
evacuate (move people from their homes or country)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
evict; force out
Context example:
The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; expel; kick out; throw out; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody 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 "force out" is one way to...):
discharge (pour forth or release)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):
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
Meaning:
Force with the thumb
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
gouge; force out
Context example:
gouge out his eyes
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Emit or cause to move with force of effort
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context examples:
force out the air / force out the splinter
Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
