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 The most significant change, however, is that motel staff now decide who gets a room and who gets kicked out. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026 So with days left before they get kicked out, Corugedo and her neighbors cleared the home, which had been converted into four housing units. — Delia Rose Sauer, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Strain was kicked out of Luke’s 32 Bridge Bar at 301 Broadway, after which a bouncer reportedly did not allow the Delta Chi member to stand outside the bar and wait for friends. — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026 However, Omega kicked out when the referee only counted to one. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026 Shuter’s report comes amid claims that multiple individuals were kicked out of Swift and Kelce’s wedding. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 6 July 2026 Kylie took the opportunity to poke fun at her husband and brother-in-law, Travis, 36, who were both kicked out of pre-school. — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 The film’s first official trailer offers up a sweeping, dramatic look at the Dashwood life (like the highly relatable, ha, drama of being kicked out of their sprawling mansion), complete with plenty of longing and even a dash of mystery. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 June 2026 That means that, every once in a while, when someone is saying bigoted things or acting aggressively around other customers, they get kicked out. — Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2026

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Scott first attended Arizona State on a partial golf scholarship, but was dismissed from the team after an incident with a visiting recruit.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026
In our most recent conversation, Gershman dismissed the account Sebold gave in her memoir and downplayed the parts of her testimony that were more ambiguous.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 17 July 2026

Definition of dismissed

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In that operation, federal agents randomly chased people in shopping centers, neighborhoods and a church grounds — making arrests, prompting businesses to close and causing widespread fear among immigrant communities.

— Diamy Wang July 13, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
The animal charged toward the visitor, chased him back and forth through a patch of trees, and, ultimately, struck the man with its horns, launching and flipping him over.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 July 2026

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Lagaʻaia, a 19-year-old from Sydney, Australia, was cast out of thousands to play — in her first major film role — the flesh-and-blood version of the chieftess-to-be first voiced by Cravalho.

— Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
As such, the light cast out from its surface some 250 years ago is only now reaching Earth, having traveled for centuries through the near vacuum of space at the speed of light — a blistering 186,282 miles per second (299,791 kilometers per second).

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of cast out

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Much has once again been made of that famous 2007 photoshoot in which Messi was pictured bathing a young child, which turned out to be Yamal.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
That turned out to be wrong for a meaningful minority of them, whose brains were generating signals our methods were not sensitive enough to pick up.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026

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