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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bereave, boot out, bounce, break, bust, cashier, cast, cast out, chuck out, deconsecrate, defenestrate, defrock, deport, depose, dethrone, detrude, disbar, discard, discharge, discrown, disenthrone, disinherit, dislodge, dismiss, displace, dispossess, divest, drum out, eject, evict, exclude, excommunicate, expel, extrude, give the gate, give the hook, heave out, jettison, junk, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, lag, liquidate, lose, obtrude, ostracize, overthrow, pension, pension off, purge, put out, read out of, reject, relegate, remove, remove from office, retire, rob, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, thrust out, toss out, transport, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unhouse, unkennel, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

Dictionary Results for oust:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

oust
    v 1: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted
         after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out,
         drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]
    2: remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the
       typewriter"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Oust \Oust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ousted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Ousting.] [OF. oster, F. [^o]ter, prob. fr. L. obstare to
   oppose, hence, to forbid, take away. See Obstacle, and cf.
   Ouster.]
   1. To take away; to remove.
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            Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare,
            formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. --Sir M.
                                                  Hale.
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   2. To eject; to expel; to turn out. --Blackstone.
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            From mine own earldom foully ousted me. --Tennyson.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Oust \Oust\, n.
   See Oast.
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