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force out
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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
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the shortstop got the runner at second on a force

Syn: ↑force-out, ↑force play, ↑force
Topics: ↑baseball, ↑baseball game
Hypernyms: ↑putout
II
verb
1. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
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The boss fired his secretary today

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The company terminated 25% of its workers

Syn:
displace, ↑fire, ↑give notice, ↑can, ↑dismiss, ↑give the axe, ↑send away, ↑sack, ↑give the sack, ↑terminate
Ant: ↑hire (for: ↑fire)
Derivationally related forms: ↑sack (for: ↑sack), ↑sacking (for: ↑sack), ↑dismissible (for: ↑dismiss), ↑dismission (for: ↑dismiss), ↑dismissal (for: ↑dismiss), ↑firing (for: ↑fire)
Hypernyms: ↑remove
Hyponyms:
retire, ↑pension off, ↑clean out, ↑furlough, ↑lay off, ↑squeeze out, ↑dismiss, ↑send packing, ↑send away, ↑drop
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody to INFINITIVE

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Somebody ——s PP

(for: ↑give the sack)
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Somebody ——s PP

(for: ↑give the axe)
2. press, force, or thrust out of a small space
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The weeds crowded out the flowers

Syn: ↑crowd out
Hypernyms: ↑displace
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

3. force to leave (an office)
Syn: ↑depose
Derivationally related forms: ↑deposition (for: ↑depose)
Hypernyms: ↑oust, ↑throw out, ↑drum out, ↑boot out, ↑kick out, ↑expel
Hyponyms: ↑overthrow, ↑subvert, ↑overturn, ↑bring down
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

4. force or drive out
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The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Syn: ↑rout out, ↑drive out, ↑rouse
Hypernyms: ↑move, ↑displace
Hyponyms: ↑hunt, ↑smoke out
Verb Group:
chase away, ↑drive out, ↑turn back, ↑drive away, ↑dispel, ↑drive off, ↑run off
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

5. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
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The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months

Syn: ↑evict
Derivationally related forms: ↑eviction (for: ↑evict)
Hypernyms: ↑eject, ↑chuck out, ↑exclude, ↑turf out, ↑boot out, ↑turn out
Verb Group: ↑evict
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s somebody PP

6. cause to come out in a squirt
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the boy squirted water at his little sister

Syn: ↑squirt, ↑squeeze out, ↑eject
Derivationally related forms: ↑ejection (for: ↑eject), ↑squirt (for: ↑squirt), ↑squirter (for: ↑squirt)
Hypernyms: ↑discharge
Hyponyms: ↑spritz, ↑extravasate
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s something PP

7. force with the thumb
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gouge out his eyes

Syn: ↑gouge
See Also: ↑gouge out (for: ↑gouge)
Derivationally related forms: ↑gouger (for: ↑gouge), ↑gouge (for: ↑gouge)
Hypernyms: ↑mutilate, ↑mar
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

8. emit or cause to move with force of effort
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force out the air

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force out the splinter

Hypernyms: ↑emit, ↑breathe, ↑pass off
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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n. Baseball an out made by holding the ball and touching the base to which a base runner must advance

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