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Definition of oust :
1. See Oast.
2. To eject; to turn out.
3. To take away; to remove.
Synonyms:
send to Coventry, exhaust, cast out, toss away, unthrone, boot, run off, dispossess, pack off, agitate, chase, drum, dethrone, bump, destabilize, fling, defect, boot out, unmake, wash out, show the door, cast aside, defrock, cast away, turf out, disinherit, demonstrate, kick out, turf, dismiss, turn out, discard, drive out, sack, depose, throw away, displace, drum out, force out, expropriate, rout out, unseat, deprive, discharge, give someone the boot, study at eject, rout, keep, bring down, chuck out, release, distrain, divest, put away, uncrown, throw out, chase out, out, give the gate, dislodge, advance, bounce, toss out, show someone the door, foment, chuck, send packing, toss, extrude, buck off, dispose, bundle off
exclude (part of speech: verb)
deny, ban, excise, disqualify, ignore, forbid, renounce, prohibit, bar, disallow, proscribe, repudiate, amputate, eradicate, relegate
seclude (part of speech: verb)
blacklist, deport, cordon, exile, boycott, banish, eliminate, sequester, expatriate, exclude, extirpate, segregate, confine, evict, cloister, detach, reject, excommunicate, ostracize, closet, insulate, alienate, expel, isolate, screen, separate, seclude, blackball, extradite, remove, disbar, eject
Usage examples:
- She stood a few steps above him; her little candle, flashing its rays into the darkness of the upper and lower halls, made walls and balustrades seem vast by its flickering impotence to oust the darkness. - "A Dozen Ways Of Love", Lily Dougall.
- The count showed less respect for Lourde than Lourde for him; and he even aided the French on one occasion by a scheme to capture the place and oust the intruders. - "A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees", Edwin Asa Dix.
- And oust his chief! - "Modeste Mignon", Honore de Balzac.