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Force out   /fɔrs aʊt/   Listen
Force out

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: force, force-out, force play.
verb
1.
Force to leave (an office).  Synonym: depose.
2.
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.  Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate.  "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
3.
Force or drive out.  Synonyms: drive out, rouse, rout out.
4.
Press, force, or thrust out of a small space.  Synonym: crowd out.
5.
Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.  Synonym: evict.
6.
Cause to come out in a squirt.  Synonyms: eject, squeeze out, squirt.
7.
Force with the thumb.  Synonym: gouge.
8.
Emit or cause to move with force of effort.  "Force out the splinter"






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"Force out" Quotes from Famous Books



... stratagem, and, therefore, he designed, by burning the villages, and destroying the country, to deprive them of the means of subsistence, and harass them with famine; to hover at a distance, and cut off those parties which necessity should force out to forage, till a body of troops could be assembled sufficient to overthrow them in a battle, or to drive them back ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10. - Parlimentary Debates I. • Samuel Johnson

... throwers. In working forward the machine-gun base became lost when the man who had it was slain. Thereupon a Canadian "lumberjack" named Vincent became the base, the machine gun being fired from his back. But the German bomb throwers drove the attacking force out of the trench. The Germans kept a rain of lead between the Canadians and the British line of trenches with the result that it was almost suicide for a man to attempt to return for bombs. Nevertheless many braved the ordeal. Only one was successful. He, ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... on this powerful agency that the steam-doctors rely, when, by moisture and heat, they stimulate all the innumerable perspiration-tubes and lymphatics to force out from the body a flood of unnaturally excited secretions; while it is "kill or cure," just as the chance may meet or oppose the demands of the case. It is the skin also that is the chief basis of medical treatment ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... the water. There's a strong pump connected with that motor aft there, that will force out water against the pressure of the sea at fifty fathoms down. That is ten atmospheres—pretty hard pressure. But, if the motor gets wet, it is useless to work the pump; so, we can be satisfied that, if we sink by means of the sea ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... as rarely my observation had dwelt on any man. He had the German head, wide, so as seemingly to force out the ears; honest, ready, interested eyes in conversation; parched lips; a rather tropically-coloured skin; and decidedly the manners of a gentleman to all, excepting his retinue of secretaries, valets, and chasseurs—his 'blacks,' ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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