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eject

/ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/

eject verb: to compel (a person or persons) to leave.

Verb

eject (third-person singular simple present ejects, present participle ejecting, simple past and past participle ejected)

  1. (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
    • The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.
    • Andrew was ejected from his apartment for not paying the rent.
  2. (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
    • In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.
    • The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93
    Synonyms:
    throw out
  3. (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
    Synonyms:
    kick out, send off, toss
  4. (intransitive, usually) To forcefully project oneself or another occupant from an aircraft (or, rarely, another type of vehicle), typically using an ejection seat or escape capsule.
    • The pilot lost control of the plane and had to eject.
    • As the crippled jet spiralled down, the pilot pulled the escape handle, ejecting first his rear-seater, then himself.
    Synonyms:
    punch out
  5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
    • Press that button to eject the video tape.
    1. (transitive, by analogy) To unmount (a drive).
  6. (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
    • I can't get this cassette to eject.
    Synonyms:
    come out

Noun

IPA/ˈiː.d͡ʒɛkt/

eject (countable and uncountable, plural ejects)

  1. (countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness

eject meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

eject in Tamil

வெளியேற்று, வெளியே தள்ளு

eject in Bengali

বের করে দেওয়া, অধিকারচ্যুত করা, উচ্ছেদ করা, উঠান, উত্ক্ষাত করা, উত্সাদন করা

eject in Malayalam

to eject, to reject
പുറത്താക്കുക puṟattākkuka

eject in Kannada

ಚಿಮ್ಮು, ಒಱವೇಳ್, ಬುಗ್ಗೆಯೇಳು, ಹೊರಸೂಸು, ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು, ಹೊರದೂಡು
More languagesFewer languages
eject in Odia
ଉଠାଇବା uṭhāibā
eject in Sanskrit
उद्गॄ udgṝ
eject in Arabic
قَذَفَ نَفْسَهُ qaḏafa nafsahu
eject in Vietnamese
phun

Examples of eject in a sentence

  • Rice Thomas threatened to eject the Carnarvonshire Railway from its Pant [Pant Glas] Station for non-payment of rent!1958 September, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 595:
  • Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 5...

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Synonyms of eject

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Forms of eject

Verb
third-person singular presentejects
present participleejecting
past participleejected
pastejected
Noun
pluralejects

Past tense of eject: ejected

Origin of eject

From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”).

From Latin ēiectum (“(that which is) thrown out”), from ēiciō (“to throw out”) (see Etymology 1). Coined by W. K. Clifford by analogy with subject and object.

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Questions about eject

What does eject mean?
Eject means to compel (a person or persons) to leave.
What is eject in Tamil?
Eject in Tamil is வெளியேற்று, வெளியே தள்ளு. See Eject meaning in Tamil.
How do you use eject in a sentence?
Rice Thomas threatened to eject the Carnarvonshire Railway from its Pant [Pant Glas] Station for non-payment of rent!
What part of speech is eject?
Eject can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce eject?
Eject is pronounced /ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/.
What is the past tense of eject?
The past tense of eject is ejected.

Words near eject in the dictionary

  1. ejaculatory ducts
  2. ejaculum
  3. Ejagham
  4. EJB
  5. EJBs
  6. eject
  7. ejecta
  8. ejecta spherule
  9. ejectability
  10. ejectable
  11. ejectables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eject (page history and authors); eject (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eject (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പുറത്താക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); eject (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଉଠାଇବା (Odia) (page history and authors); उद्गॄ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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