KICKED OUT Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

kicked out

verb

past tense of kick out

as in dismissed

to drive or force out kicked out of the game for using bad language

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Recent Examples of kicked out Fans who are kicked out for such conduct will be banned from attending athletic events for the remainder of the school year and are subject to university fan or student conduct policies, the league said. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 How a politician gets kicked out of office in California — and who takes their spot — could soon change. — Kiara Adams, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026 The goal came some 40 seconds after Blackhawks goalie Spencer Knight kicked out his left pad to foil Neal Pionk's attempt to convert Mark Scheifele's cross-ice pass on a two-on-one break. — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Then, her son was kicked out of school over behavioral issues. — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026 The group contends that word bans — which can lead to people who use those words getting kicked out of meetings and potentially barred from future ones — violate First Amendment protections of free speech. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Two of the Chi Phi brothers named in the suit were kicked out of their rugby club after the allegations came to light, a former teammate told NBC News. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026 They were once nearly kicked out of a Mastro’s Steakhouse in San Francisco because their bickering about baseball reached decibel levels that made other patrons uncomfortable. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Variety spoke with Chapek to discuss his book, his legacy at Disney — and his lingering resentment about how he was kicked out. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicked out

Verb

The North has denied responsibility for the incident and dismissed Seoul's demand to apologize and remove its remaining mines.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Three weeks before the election, the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee dismissed the case, but the AID Coalition agreed not to buy more blocks on additional flights.

— Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismissed

Verb

Making matters worse for Atlanta, reserve guard Kingston Flemings, who scored 12 points, received a technical foul and was ejected for elbowing Pelicans reserve guard Bryce McGowens in the face during the final minutes.

— Brett Martel, AJC.com, 1 Nov. 2026
This wasn't the first time Sousa and XX-XY Athletics supporters had been ejected from a Thorns game at Providence Park.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of ejected

Verb

Last year, Rich County Sheriff Dale Stacey said detectives had chased reports of sightings across multiple states and urged the public to preserve any photographic or timestamped evidence.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
An officer chased Burch into an apartment complex near Eagle Springs Way and used a Taser on him, police said.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of chased

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Co-owner John Mara is battling cancer, and co-owner Steve Tisch is laying low after being outed in the Epstein Files.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of outed

Verb

These cases include the current lawsuit by CNN, MS NOW and Politico, whose journalists were banished from the White House in September.

— Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Some ideas stay banished, while others return in new, exciting ways, giving homes a refresh that still feels familiar.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of banished

Verb

Lamashtu said something the patriarch couldn’t abide, and for that she was cast out of polite divine society forever and sent to make chaos among mortals.

— Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Some hoped that labels would confront the culture of misogyny in an ecosystem that critics have long said has gone unchecked and cast out predators among their ranks.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of cast out

Verb

Even as record diesel prices have triggered a wave of trucking bankruptcies, driving diesel-free vehicles has turned out to be more expensive than expected.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
That stint turned out to be the best stretch of the night for the Knicks.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of turned out

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