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 Freedom has been in the news after he was kicked out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday night after an altercation with Sky player Natasha Cloud during the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Mary Allison Joseph, a community organizer for KC Tenants, said 24 residents were kicked out of the apartments late last week. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026 The public quickly tired of them, and voters soon welcomed back the same kinds of politicians that soldiers had kicked out. — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026 Notably, both had been kicked out of a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting once already this year. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026 Jackson was kicked out of that 11-on-11 series, and the one that followed, but returned to man his starting right tackle spot during the situational drill that typically wraps up joint practices. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 That player was outside linebacker Donovan Ezeiruaku, who was kicked out of practice two weeks ago for throwing a punch. — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Reservations are essential even at restaurants that aren't on TikTok; yes, you can be kicked out of a VIP section; and even at an afterparty, there are limits to how loud the music can go. — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026 Regarding the speculation that Trinity was kicked out of the taping, however, Madix says there is no truth to the rumors. — Sarah Hearon, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026

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Gibson Dunn, an external law firm, investigated and dismissed Love’s complaints.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026
Advertisement Unfortunately, some of my academic and clinical colleagues have dismissed this approach.

— David H. Rosmarin, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of dismissed

Verb

Plate umpire Alan Porter tossed Vitello and first-base ump Jim Wolf ejected Webb, who was not pitching Friday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Days later, a former NBA player who has used the WNBA as a vehicle for anti-trans advocacy was ejected from a Chicago Sky game, after engaging in an altercation with team guard Natasha Cloud.

— Odette Yousef, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of ejected

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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

Any doubts over whether that deal would be concluded would have been banished as soon as Riad was taken off.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Since then, the former Duke of York has been effectively banished from royal life, including the Firm’s annual Christmas gathering at Sandringham.

— Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of banished

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Consider heading all the way north along the sand for the pretty trails and quiet beach fronting Hanna Park, or go south to the quarter-mile-long Jax Beach Pier, where surfers catch waves and anglers cast out lines.

— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2026
Schaldemose plays grieving widow Anna who returns to Hel Island to bury her late husband after his suicide, and is promptly cast out by the eccentric locals for being a symbol of bad luck and evil.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of cast out

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Getting singled out by Sacha Baron Cohen‘s most infamous character turned out to be good publicity, not an insult, for Ed Sheeran.

— Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2026
Harry Kane Kane was England’s clutch player at the World Cup, scoring a late double to avoid a disastrous early exit against DR Congo and netting what turned out to be the decisive goal from the penalty spot in England’s epic 3-2 win over Mexico.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

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