verb
1. remove from a position or office
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The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
• Derivationally related forms: ↑expulsion (for: ↑expel), ↑ouster (for: ↑oust), ↑ousting (for: ↑oust)
• Hypernyms: ↑remove
• Hyponyms: ↑excommunicate, ↑depose, ↑force out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s PP
2. put out or expel from a place
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The unruly student was excluded from the game
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exclusion (for: ↑exclude), ↑ejection (for: ↑eject), ↑ejector (for: ↑eject)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody PP
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Somebody ——s something PP
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ˌboot ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they boot out he/she/it boots out present participle booting out past tense booted out past participle booted out] informal phrasal verb
to make someone leave a place, their job, or something that they are involved in
His girlfriend has booted him out.
boot someone out of something:
They were booted out of the club for fighting.
Thesaurus: to force someone to leave a placesynonym
Main entry: boot
Useful english dictionary. 2012.