eject Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb put out or expel from a place
    chuck out; turf out; boot out; turn out; exclude.
    • The unruly student was excluded from the game
  2. verb eliminate (a substance)
    release; exhaust; expel; discharge.
    • combustion products are exhausted in the engine
    • the plant releases a gas
  3. verb leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
  4. verb cause to come out in a squirt
    force out; squirt; squeeze out.
    • the boy squirted water at his little sister

WordNet

E*ject" transitive verb
Etymology
L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Ejected; present participle & verbal noun Ejecting
Definitions
  1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.
  2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate. Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void.

Webster 1913