ousted

verb

past tense of oust
1
as in dismissed
to drive or force out she was ousted from her job after it was proven she'd been pilfering company supplies

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2
as in deposed
to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) the people finally rose up and ousted the corrupt dictator

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3
as in evicted
to end the occupancy or possession of the squatters were forcibly ousted from the abandoned building

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Recent Examples of ousted Now a new report on the fallout from the investigation into that flyover is rattling the Defense Department and could lead to further delay in replacing the Army leader ousted for refusing to kill the probe. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026 Two other siblings, Joey and Jesse Buss, were ousted from their roles with the team when Walter bought in last year. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026 Al-Sharaa ousted President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 in an offensive led by HTS rebels. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors allege Al-Marimi and others carried out the bombing at the direction of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was ousted and killed during a 2011 civil war. — Michael Kunzelman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 Postwar Germany ran a denazification program, for example, while recent elections in Ukraine ousted corrupt, pro-Moscow leaders. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2026 Earlier this week, recently ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections, presenting a fresh political challenge to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026 Its economy is in shambles, its proxies have been decimated by Israel and its allies in Iraq have been ousted. — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026 Some half-million Syrians have returned since former Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted in December 2024, according to Lebanon’s social affairs minister. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ousted
  1. dismissed
  2. deposed
  3. evicted
  4. ejected
  5. sacked
  6. deprived
  7. outed
  8. toppled
Verb
  • Fedorov, a popular minister credited with modernizing Ukraine’s armed forces and accelerating the military’s embrace of technology and drone warfare, was dismissed last month after reportedly falling out with the country’s top military commander.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Gonzalez Rogers initially dismissed the case, though the Supreme Court later took it up and ruled that consumers could sue the company.
    — Jeffrey Kopp, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of dismissed
Verb
  • Paxton wasn't a defendant in the suit, but as the company's former attorney, he was deposed in 2019 and in 2022.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The good news is the world has not seen a successful military coup since November of last year, when soldiers deposed the president of Guinea-Bissau on the coast of West Africa.
    — Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of deposed
Verb
  • That’s partly why the British royal family has recently tried to distance themselves from the disgraced ex-prince, to the point that he was stripped of his titles and evicted from his home at Royal Lodge.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The police report says Brayboy was evicted from the home 10 days earlier, but was allowed to return to care for the dogs.
    — Ted Scouten, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of evicted
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  • Pirates reliever Camilo Doval pitched one inning of scoreless relief in the sixth before being ejected.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Cal Raleigh delivered the big blow with a game-tying three-run home run in the second inning, followed by Brendan Donovan’s go-ahead RBI single three batters later, aided by a controversial balk call that led to manager Craig Counsell being ejected.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of ejected
Verb
  • Come the end of the season, Frank had been sacked and Tottenham only just stayed up.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Jayhawks trailed by six and got the ball at their 11 with 17 seconds left, but Missouri sealed the 36-28 victory with a safety when Lorenzo Williams sacked Reesing in the end zone.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of sacked
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  • Maxwell, 64, filed the habeas corpus petition in December 2025, asking the court to vacate her sentence, claiming a number of constitutional and legal errors had deprived her of a fair trial.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Even if they are deprived testosterone by their transition, that’s only part of the story.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of deprived
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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
  • Indeed, Italian Fascism toppled at the end of the Second World War.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The designation remained throughout the rule of his son Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled by rebels led by current President Ahmed al-Sharaa in December 2024.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of toppled

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“Ousted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ousted. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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