TURFED (OUT) Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

turfed (out)

verb

past tense of turf (out), chiefly British

as in outed

to drive or force out the pub keeper doesn't hesitate to turf out anyone who gets too drunk

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Thiel mentioned the news outlet Gawker, which had recently outed him as gay.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
And what happens to someone who’s been outed like that, as a fake?

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 July 2026

Definition of outed

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But that conviction was dismissed after the revelation that a juror in the trial had not disclosed a domestic violence incident in her own background in order to win a seat on the panel, The Denver Post reports.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
Defense attorneys also should not be able to reference the felony charges dismissed after video showed agents’ falsehoods.

— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026

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The bright light attracts massive swarms of flying insects, chased by birds, which unwittingly get instantly vaporized mid-air by the invisible, high-temperature beams.

— Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Chicago chased outside the strike zone at a 36 percent clip against Brown, who threw 67 percent of his pitches for strikes.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 26 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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Earlier this month, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reiterated that Miller, like any other congressman, should be able to go through the House ethics committee process instead of getting kicked out of the House GOP caucus.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 30 July 2026
Shida followed up with a meteora, and Maya barely kicked out.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of kicked out

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