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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
   - force out, force play, force

1. Force to leave (an office)
   - depose
    
2. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer], dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, give the sack, terminate
    
3. Force or drive out
   - rout out, drive out, rouse
    
4. Press, force, or thrust out of a small space
   - crowd out
    
5. Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
   - evict
    
6. Cause to come out in a squirt
   - squirt, squeeze out, eject
    
7. Force with the thumb
   - gouge
    
8. Emit or cause to move with force of effort
   "force out the air"; "force out the splinter"

Derived forms: forces out, forced out, forcing out, force-outs

See also: force

Type of: boot out, breathe, chuck out, discharge, displace, drum out, eject, emit, exclude, expel, kick out, mar, move, mutilate, oust, pass off, putout, remove, throw out, turf out [Brit], turn out

Encyclopedia: Force out