EJECTING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

ejecting

verb

present participle of eject

as in dismissing

to drive or force out we summarily ejected the unwanted guest from our party

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as in expelling

to violently throw out or off (something from within) the malfunctioning VCR abruptly stopped rewinding and ejected the tape

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Recent Examples of ejecting The crash triggered an emergency response near Morro Bay, where the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Derek Gutierrez, a public affairs specialist with the 149th Fighter Wing, said the pilot received medical treatment after ejecting from the aircraft. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 Out toward the edge, the star would boil unstably, sloughing off outer layers and explosively ejecting mass. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026 The impact tore away the entire right side and most of the roof of the vehicle, ejecting all five passengers. — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 When Freedom stepped toward the court, security intervened and led him away before ejecting him from the building. — Emily Ohman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 The vehicle flipped, ejecting him, and then landed on top of him. — Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026 During a process called Hills capture, as a stellar binary orbits a supermassive black hole and the gravitational influence of the black hole rips the binary apart, ejecting one star while capturing the other. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Based on witness statements, a jet ski allegedly struck a wake, ejecting the operator into the water, according to DEEP officials. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

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Yet, our president is dismissing all of the concerns as a hoax.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026
Owner Jim Crane already enacted one by dismissing general manager Dana Brown in August.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismissing

Verb

Those include bringing the Kurdish peshmerga security forces in northern Iraq under control of the central government’s military and expelling Iranian Kurdish dissident groups and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, that have bases in the region.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
The thought of the SEC expelling one of its charter members after 94 years of inclusion seems preposterous.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of expelling

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After Hallet dies in a misguided clinic bust care of a banishing spell gone awry, the whole Owens clan is nearly destroyed.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
Rhaenyra also makes the drastic decision of relieving Mysaria of her duties as master of whispers and banishing her from King’s Landing.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of banishing

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The story plays out in New York’s cutthroat acting scene, where a talented Indian actor chasing his craft falls under the sway of Keitel’s teacher.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
The Padres lost for only the fourth time in their last 24 outings despite chasing ace Jacob Misiorowski after four innings.

— Steve Megargee, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of chasing

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Is this tobacco-spitting, plain-talking Jon Sumrall a coaching amalgamation of Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer?

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Neutrons are unstable when they’re not bound in nuclei, spontaneously spitting out lighter particles in about 15 minutes to become the slightly lighter proton.

— Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of spitting

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One of the attractions of self-storage as a business is that evicting stuff is easier than evicting people.

— David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
In 1968 Britain considered evicting the family by force, with declassified documents showing a plan to raze the fort.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of evicting

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This breathable, double-sided mitt boasts 160 LEDs in total, emitting both red and near-infrared light.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
On this, too, Brazil has electoral laws that ban AI tools from ranking candidates or emitting opinions.

— Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026

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