Synonyms for oust
aʊstoust

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1. oustverb

   Synonyms:
   reject, eject, dismiss, banish, exclude

   Antonyms:
   harbor, accept, shelter

2. oustverb

   To expel; to remove.

   The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.

   Synonyms:
   eject, dismiss, exclude, banish, reject

   Antonyms:
   accept, shelter, harbor

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1. oust

   Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. From a country, a person may be banished, exiled, or expatriated; banished from any country where he may happen to be, but expatriated or exiled only from his own. One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep. To expel is to drive out with violence or rudeness, and so often with disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   ban, banish, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, drive out, eject, evict, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize

   Preposition:
   Cataline was banished from Rome; John the Apostle was banished to Patmos.

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1. oust

   Synonyms:
   eject, dispossess, deprive, evict, eject, dislodge, remove

   Antonyms:
   install, reinstate, readmit, restore

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1. oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expelverb

   remove from a position or office

   "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

   Synonyms:
   rout, exhaust, turf out, expel, toss, throw out, cast out, boot out, fling, discharge, cast away, turn out, release, chuck out, toss out, dispose, dismiss, exclude, throw away, advance, cast aside, kick out, rout out, drum out, put away, toss away, discard, eject

2. oustverb

   remove and replace

   "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

   Synonyms:
   expel, drum out, throw out, boot out, kick out

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1. • Supplant

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1. oustverb

   Synonyms:
   eject, expel, dislodge, turn out

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1. oustverb

   Synonyms:
   eject, evict, dispossess, dislodge, remove, displace, expel, depose

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1. List of paraphrases for "oust":

   overthrow, topple, expel

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How to use oust in a sentence?

1. Ralph Nader:

   Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

2. Matt Moore:

   I think any effort to oust Reince will fail and it's not the job of our nominee to select the RNC chair. It's the job of the RNC members to select the RNC chair.

3. Antonio Barroso:

   Even if no successful motion is passed to oust Rajoy, the risk of early elections before the end of the year has increased significantly, if an early election is held before year-end, a centrist, market-friendly and pro-European government would be the most likely result.

4. Mongkol Sukcharoenkana:

   The fisheries law is deformed. The regulations based on it are then also deformed. We have to fix the root cause, if the government won't fix the problems for us, we'll just oust them.

5. Adam Kinzinger:

   What we can do as a party is take a stand and say,' You don't belong in our conference.' That's what I think we should do, if there was a kind of organic, within-the-conference movement to oust Liz Cheney, certainly we can have the same kind of movement to oust somebody that is trying to compare wearing a mask to the Nazis.