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How does the verb eject contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of eject are evict, expel, and oust. While all these words mean "to drive or force out," eject carries an especially strong implication of throwing or thrusting out from within as a physical action.

ejected an obnoxious patron from the bar

When would evict be a good substitute for eject?

The synonyms evict and eject are sometimes interchangeable, but evict chiefly applies to turning out of house and home.

evicted for nonpayment of rent

Where would expel be a reasonable alternative to eject?

Although the words expel and eject have much in common, expel stresses a thrusting out or driving away especially permanently which need not be physical.

a student expelled from college

When could oust be used to replace eject?

The words oust and eject can be used in similar contexts, but oust implies removal or dispossession by power of the law or by force or compulsion.

police ousted the squatters

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of eject Ben Sharkey, now a visiting senior faculty specialist at the University of Maryland, College Park, led a study published in November 2021 suggesting that the Ferris wheel-size asteroid may be a massive boulder ejected from the moon by an impact. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 28 May 2025 Among Cassini’s major discoveries were plumes of water vapor and ice that regularly ejected out of Enceladus’ South Polar region. Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025 Collins was unrestrained and was ejected from the vehicle. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 22 May 2025 Shortly after the series premiered a fan in Cleveland was ejected for directing an inappropriate comment at Duran referencing the attempt. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for eject
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eject
Verb
  • For years, a mysterious figure who goes by the handle Stern led the Trickbot ransomware gang and evaded identification—even as other members of the group were outed in leaks and unmasked.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 30 May 2025
  • Eddie's real parentage is revealed, Maeve is outed, Kevin catches up with Rusby, Bella brokers her deal, and Alice attends an awkward Harrigan dinner.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025
Verb
  • Even more disheartening was the Berea College case from 1908, where the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law that forced an integrated Christian College, whose mission was to educate youths of all races, to expel all its black students in the name of segregation.
    James Burling, Oc Register, 2 June 2025
  • Video of the talent show is online, and there are parents in the comments suggesting that Elijah be expelled.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 29 May 2025
Verb
  • Despite seeking help from her local GP, her concerns were initially dismissed.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • Congressional Republicans, many of whom had also grown annoyed with Musk over the last few months, have largely dismissed the billionaire’s fiery opposition to the bill.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
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  • Violent riots erupted across the U.K. after the attack, in which mosques and migrant accommodation were largely targeted.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 27 May 2025
  • The volcano is also located in the national park and last erupted in 2022.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 May 2025
Verb
  • Redefining What Success Looks Like Instead of chasing traditional business blueprints rooted in overwork and hustle, many Black women are carving out a new model—one that centers sustainability, wellness, and self-preservation.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 May 2025
  • Photos show the furry intruder perched on top of the stove in the kitchen, where a warden and local sheriff's deputy discovered the animal before chasing it from the property through an open door.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • What does that do to people’s psyches that had served their country and now they’re being spit at?
    Ashley Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • Time and time again, the AI spit out images that were strikingly, unmistakably...
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Verb
  • Their preferred solution to informational complexity—that certain ideas and the people associated with them were Bad and Wrong and needed to be banished from the public sphere—wasn’t much better.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
  • Through his tight leadership that began with the fifth season, delays became a thing of the past, unceremoniously banished to the farthest reaches of the Central Finite Curve.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • The Chinese appear to be disgorging themselves of their vast stash of treasuries.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There were only three working business establishments, all of them taverns that loudly disgorged their patrons at 2 a.m.
    Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Eject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eject. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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