DRUM (OUT) Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

drum (out)

verb

Definition of drum (out)

as in to out

to drive or force out drummed out of the service for conduct unbecoming an officer

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Verb

The right-hander pitched in his third rehab outing Friday at Double-A Portland with 48 pitches across three innings, allowing one run and striking out four.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Fans may also out the similarities of the Opticast texture to the scaly surface of the Kobe 6, but the new tech is much more advanced.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of out

Verb

Could the left groin tightness that chased Blake Snell from his last start after an inning linger into the postseason?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
There are playbooks, touchdowns, running, passing and players chasing each other all over the field.

— Patricia Babcock McGraw OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of chase

Verb

One passenger was fully ejected from the bus and another was partially ejected, police said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
The pilot ejected before the fighter went down near County Road 633 and Blair Townhall Road in Grand Traverse County.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of eject

Verb

These will show whether the vote was a watershed moment in the demise of an anti-fascist consensus dating back to World War II, or the latest in a series of elections worldwide in which frustrated voters simply cast out incumbents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
These are sons and daughters and children cast out, disappeared from their communities and forced to make a life in the shadows of society.

— Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of cast out

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Their situation is nothing like that of Prince Andrew, for example, who was stripped of all his titles and has now been banished to Sandringham.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Sep. 2026
Shoemaker said tribes have broad civil authority over non-Natives on tribal land, including to banish them.

— Savannah Peters, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of banish

Verb

Punter Matt Gill then shanked a kick out of his own end zone, producing only a 17-yard net punt and giving Arizona State possession at the KU 25 with 25 seconds remaining.

— Taylor Eldridge, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026
Despite a preliminary injunction barring the venue from closing, people were kicked out of the building and barricades erected in the name of public safety that same day.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of kick out

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Washington — The two pilots of an Amazon Air cargo jet escaped their Boeing 767 with minor injuries last week at Miami International Airport after the plane ran off the end of a runway, striking two vehicles and killing five people.

— Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
Reed started 10 shots behind and ran off six birdies in 10 holes, but none after that, to tie for second and expand his lead over McIlroy in the Race to Dubai.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026

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