OUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oust mean? 

• OUST (verb)
  The verb OUST has 2 senses:

1. remove from a position or office

2. remove and replace

  Familiarity information: OUST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they oust    ... he / she / it ousts   
Past simple: ousted   
Past participle: ousted   
-ing form: ousting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a position or office

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out

Context example:

The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds

Hypernyms (to "oust" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

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

excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)

depose; force out (force to leave (an office))

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

ouster (a person who ousts or supplants someone else)

ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove and replace

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The word processor has ousted the typewriter

Hypernyms (to "oust" is one way to...):

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

When the Professor saw Mina a smile—a positive smile ousted the anxiety of his face; he rubbed his hands as he said:—"Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is indeed a change. See! friend Jonathan, we have got our dear Madam Mina, as of old, back to us to-day!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)