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Force Out| Verb | 1. | force out - force to leave (an office) | | | 2. | force out - terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"retire - make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal" pension off - let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" clean out - force out; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" furlough, lay off - dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" squeeze out - force out; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" remove - remove from a position or an office | | | 3. | force out - force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M."move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" hunt - chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" smoke out - drive out with smoke; "smoke out the bees" | | | 4. | force out - force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war"move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" transplant, transfer - lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" crowd out - press, force, or thrust out of a small space; "The weeds crowded out the flowers" evacuate - move people from their homes or country | | | 5. | force out - expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"evict - expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." | | | 6. | force out - cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his little sister"spritz - eject (a liquid) quickly; "spritz water on a surface" extravasate - force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel discharge - pour forth or release; "discharge liquids" | | | 7. | force out - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"mar, mutilate - destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" | | | 8. | force out - emit with force of effort; "force out the air" | |
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