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. Yuri Trutnev:

   It depends on Exxon, no one is taking any action to oust the company out of the project.

2. Tara Setmayer:

   In the two decades I've known African American, he's never been afraid to speak truth to power. As a former Republican National Committee chairman, Michael's decision to join the Lincoln Project's efforts to oust Trump and his enablers is a big deal, republican National Committee's truly' country over party' personified. Michael's invaluable experience and brand of tell Republican National Committee like it is politics will fit right in on this pirate ship. Welcome aboard.

3. Cindy McCain:

   It doesn't serve any good if we just oust someone who really is a good representative of the party.

4. 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.

5. 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.