oust

oust
v
1. expel, drive out, force out, thrust out; extrude, eject, run [s.o.] off or out; suspend, Sl. kick out, dismiss, fire, show the door, cashier, drum out; Inf. give [s.o.] his walking papers, All Sl. sack, can, give [s.o.] the boot, bag, bump, bounce, give [s.o.] the heave-ho; disown, repudiate, reject, discard; exile, expatriate, banish, proscribe, outlaw, relegate, deport; excommunicate, unchurch, ostracize, blackball, exclude, isolate, maroon.
2.Law. dispossess, evict, put out, Inf. put on the street, make homeless

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