Verb: force out fors awt
- Compel to leave or emerge from a place, especially by force or pressure
"The police forced out the protesters";
- rout out, drive out, rouse
- Force to leave (an office)
"The shareholders forced out the CEO due to poor performance";
- depose
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
"The boss forced out his secretary today";
- displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, give the sack [informal], terminate
- Expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
"The landlord forced out the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months";
- evict
- Press, force, or thrust out of a small space
"The weeds forced out the flowers";
- crowd out
- Emit or cause to move with force of effort
"force out the air"; "force out the splinter"
- (baseball) 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
"the shortstop got the runner at second on a force out";
- force-out, force play, force
Derived forms: forced out, force-outs, forcing out, forces out
See also: force
Type of: boot out [informal], breathe, chuck out, displace, drum out, eject, emit, exclude, expel, kick out [informal], move, oust, putout, remove, throw out, turf out [Brit, informal], turn out
Encyclopedia: Force out