force out

force out
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
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:
• 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:
• 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:
• 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

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • force-out — ☆ force out [fôrs′out΄ ] n. Baseball an out that results when a base runner who has been forced from a base when a teammate hits the ball fails to reach the next base before the ball does …   English World dictionary

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  • force out of — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms force out of : present tense I/you/we/they force out of he/she/it forces out of present participle forcing out of past tense forced out of past participle forced out of force something out of someone to force… …   English dictionary

  • force out — 1. verb a) To cause something to be ejected We are going to force out intolerance. b) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground Jones …   Wiktionary

  • force-out — /fawrs owt , fohrs /, n. Baseball. a put out of a base runner on a force play. [1895 1900, Amer.; n. use of v. phrase force out] * * * …   Universalium

  • force-out — noun Date: 1896 a play in baseball in which a runner is put out by being forced to advance to the next base but failing to do so safely …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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