BOOTS (OUT) Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

boots (out)

verb

Definition of boots (out)

present tense third-person singular of boot (out)

as in outs

to drive or force out the theater manager booted out the audience members who were making a disturbance

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Verb

Ezekiel Richardson outs himself as a spy for the Continental Army to Claire.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
Luckily, the king’s favorite wife, Esther, outs herself as Jewish.

— Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of outs

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This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of ejects

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Warsh, conversely, advocates for the Fed to be more opaque, a strategy the author dismisses as misguided.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
One automatically ascribes fraud to results that are often predictable, even routine; the other dismisses legitimate concerns as conspiracy theories.

— Andrew E. Busch, The Conversation, 23 July 2026

Definition of dismisses

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Denny Hamlin, who was born in nearby Tampa, chases the best finish of his 21-year career.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 31 July 2026
The Textbook Case The R&D tax credit rewards work that chases something new or improved, leans on real engineering, begins with technical uncertainty and resolves it through experimentation.

— Anna Meadows, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of chases

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The book is structured as a quest to figure out why a class of aimless young men in late-Thatcherist Blighty get their kicks out of getting paralytically drunk and bashing one another half to death every weekend.

— Leander Schaerlaeckens June 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Pretti then spits on the SUV and kicks out the vehicle's passenger-side taillight.

— Kevin Ko, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026

Definition of kicks out

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So, when Diana falls in love with Lalo, the King banishes him.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

— Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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