ousted

verbexpel, get rid of

Synonyms for ousted

verb expel, get rid of

Antonyms for ousted

Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Anglo-French oster (late 13c.), Old French oster "remove, take away, take off; evict, dispel; liberate, release" (Modern French ôter), from Latin obstare "stand before, be opposite, stand opposite to, block," in Vulgar Latin, "hinder," from ob "against" (see ob-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Related: Ousted; ousting.

Example Sentences forousted

But though her life was now crowded with new interests that first-comer was not ousted.

If they're ousted from Pump Street they're flying somewhere.

At first there appeared to be no way by which the bear might be ousted from his secure quarters.

He would have nothing at the hands of the man who had ousted him.

He had ousted the Scotch gardener and insinuated a relation of his own in his place.

The shock of the real trouble had ousted the imaginary one for the moment.

After an extraordinary display of ostentation, Longchamp was ousted in his turn.

Where heavy hand machines have come in they have ousted women.

There would be no salt left for him in the earth if he was ousted.

The combined forces of the ousted Khalifas were the more numerous.

ousted

Synonyms for ousted

Antonyms for ousted

dismissed

recalled

removed

ousted

Synonyms for ousted

Antonyms for ousted

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discharged

dismissed

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