“Ejected” is a form of
eject
/ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/ verb, noun
Forms ejects ejecting ejected
- verb (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave. “The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.”
- verb (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.”
- verb (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
- verb (usually intransitive) 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.”
- verb (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine. “Press that button to eject the video tape.”
- verb (computing, transitive, by analogy) To unmount (a drive).
- verb (intransitive) To come out of a machine. “I can't get this cassette to eject.”
- noun (psychology, countable) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Synonyms
throw out kick out send off toss punch out come out boot out discharge dismiss drive out evict expel oust turf out remove chuck out exclude turn out exhaust release squirt force out squeeze out
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate.
Etymology [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “eject”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details