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    TURF OUT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Put out or expel from a placeplay

    Example:

    The unruly student was excluded from the game

    Synonyms:

    boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "turf out" is one way to...):

    expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turf out"):

    evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

    evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

    show the door (ask to leave)

    bounce (eject from the premises)

    exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP

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