EJECTED Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

ejected

verb

past tense of eject

as in dismissed

to drive or force out we summarily ejected the unwanted guest from our party

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as in expelled

to violently throw out or off (something from within) the malfunctioning VCR abruptly stopped rewinding and ejected the tape

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Recent Examples of ejected Boone didn’t get to watch the disastrous half-inning from the dugout, as he was ejected in the top of the sixth. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 A week later, on Tuesday, May 19, Southampton were ejected from the play-off final by the EFL’s independent disciplinary commission. — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 As in the LaMelo Ball who the NBA after the fact said should have been ejected for that first-half foul. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026 Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS affiliate KOLD that the force of the water carried the woman through a tunnel and ejected her roughly 100 feet downstream. — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 Brouhaha erupts Martin was ejected in the third inning Thursday after throwing two pitches at the head of Reds first baseman Sal Stewart, who had homered in the first inning. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 White Sox right-hander Davis Martin was ejected after threw up and in on Stewart on consecutive pitches leading off the third, hitting the rookie slugger with the second one. — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Seattle manager Dan Wilson was ejected for the second time over the past four games. — ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026 Braves manager Walt Weiss was ejected during the ensuing arguments about the call. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026

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But the fate of Mangione’s state case, set to go to trial next month, now hangs in the balance as his attorneys seek to get second-degree murder and weapons charges dismissed over double jeopardy protections.

— Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
All six defendants initially faced torture charges that were dismissed.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of dismissed

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He had been expelled from Latitude last school year, authorities said.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
He was expelled from the Communist Party in the late 1950s for criticising the government’s economic policies – and purged again during Mao’s Cultural Revolution a decade later.

— CNN Staff, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

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Philadelphia Police Department Smith said the suspect chased a man on the west side of 15th Street and then approached a woman jogging at 15th and Market streets.

— Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
For three years the argument against the entire category was that this line could never flip, that each model generation would cost more than the last while revenue forever chased the compute bill.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of chased

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Photoplay’s feature Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives outed several of the era’s most bankable couples—Clark Gable and Carole Lombard among them—for the crime of cohabitating without paperwork.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Thiel mentioned the news outlet Gawker, which had recently outed him as gay.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of outed

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Led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the mission aims to detect the faint 21-centimeter radio line emitted by early hydrogen atoms operating at low frequencies (10–50 MHz), a signal never before directly observed.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Amazingly, all this energy from the supernova is only a small fraction (about 1 percent) of the total that’s emitted!

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of emitted

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Ransoms were paid, with Carlos taking much of the $50 million himself, leading him to be banished from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026
Most of us reach for breezy linen pants and flowy maxi dresses during summer, leaving our denim banished to the back of the closet.

— Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026

Definition of banished

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One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
When most of us think about edible seeds, our minds usually jump to chia seeds stirred into smoothies or overnight oats, pumpkin seeds roasted after carving jack-o'-lanterns each fall, or sunflower seeds chewed and spit out at a baseball game.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

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