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force out meaning and definition
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Definition of force out (noun)
- 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
- "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force"
- synonyms: force, force play, force-out
FORCE OUT verb
Definition of force out (verb)
- force to leave (an office)
- synonyms: depose
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate
- antonym: employ
- force or drive out
- press, force, or thrust out of a small space
- "The weeds crowded out the flowers"
- synonyms: crowd 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"
- synonyms: evict
- cause to come out in a squirt
- "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
- synonyms: eject, squeeze out, squirt
- force with the thumb
- "gouge out his eyes"
- synonyms: gouge
- emit or cause to move with force of effort
- "force out the air"; "force out the splinter"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet