FORCE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does force out mean? 

• FORCE OUT (noun)
  The noun FORCE OUT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: FORCE OUT used as a noun is very rare.

• FORCE OUT (verb)
  The verb FORCE OUT has 8 senses:

1. force to leave (an office)

2. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

3. force or drive out

4. press, force, or thrust out of a small space

5. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

6. cause to come out in a squirt

7. force with the thumb

8. emit or cause to move with force of effort

  Familiarity information: FORCE OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORCE OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

force; force-out; force out; force play

Context example:

the shortstop got the runner at second on a force

Hypernyms ("force out" is a kind of...):

putout (an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout))

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

• FORCE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to leave (an office)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

depose; force out

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out (remove from a position or office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):

bring down; overthrow; overturn; subvert (cause the downfall of; of rulers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate

Context example:

The company terminated 25% of its workers

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):

retire (make (someone) retire)

pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)

clean out (force out)

furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)

squeeze out (force out)

dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Context example:

The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Press, force, or thrust out of a small space

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

crowd out; force out

Context example:

The weeds crowded out the flowers

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

evict; force out

Context example:

The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)

Verb group:

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cause to come out in a squirt

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

eject; force out; squeeze out; squirt

Context example:

the boy squirted water at his little sister

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

discharge (pour forth or release)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "force out"):

spritz (eject (a liquid) quickly)

extravasate (force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Force with the thumb

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

force out; gouge

Context example:

gouge out his eyes

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 8

Meaning:

Emit or cause to move with force of effort

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

force out the splinter

Hypernyms (to "force out" is one way to...):

breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something