Meaning of "oust" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OUST

From Anglo-Norman ouster, from Latin obstāre to withstand, from ob- against + stāre to stand.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF OUST

oust  [aʊst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OUST

Oust is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb oust in English.

WHAT DOES OUST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oust

The Oust is a river in Brittany, France, right tributary of the Vilaine. Its source is in the hills between Corlay and Quintin. It flows generally southeast, through the following départements and towns: ▪ Côtes-d'Armor: Uzel ▪ Morbihan: Rohan, Josselin, Malestroit ▪ Ille-et-Vilaine: Redon The Oust flows into the river Vilaine in Redon. The part of the Oust between Rohan and Redon has been made navigable for small ships, and forms part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. The river Arz is among its tributaries.

Definition of oust in the English dictionary

The definition of oust in the dictionary is to force out of a position or place; supplant or expel. Other definition of oust is to deprive of the possession of land.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OUST

PRESENT

Present

I oust

you oust

he/she/it ousts

we oust

you oust

they oust

Present continuous

I am ousting

you are ousting

he/she/it is ousting

we are ousting

you are ousting

they are ousting

Present perfect

I have ousted

you have ousted

he/she/it has ousted

we have ousted

you have ousted

they have ousted

Present perfect continuous

I have been ousting

you have been ousting

he/she/it has been ousting

we have been ousting

you have been ousting

they have been ousting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I ousted

you ousted

he/she/it ousted

we ousted

you ousted

they ousted

Past continuous

I was ousting

you were ousting

he/she/it was ousting

we were ousting

you were ousting

they were ousting

Past perfect

I had ousted

you had ousted

he/she/it had ousted

we had ousted

you had ousted

they had ousted

Past perfect continuous

I had been ousting

you had been ousting

he/she/it had been ousting

we had been ousting

you had been ousting

they had been ousting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will oust

you will oust

he/she/it will oust

we will oust

you will oust

they will oust

Future continuous

I will be ousting

you will be ousting

he/she/it will be ousting

we will be ousting

you will be ousting

they will be ousting

Future perfect

I will have ousted

you will have ousted

he/she/it will have ousted

we will have ousted

you will have ousted

they will have ousted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been ousting

you will have been ousting

he/she/it will have been ousting

we will have been ousting

you will have been ousting

they will have been ousting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would oust

you would oust

he/she/it would oust

we would oust

you would oust

they would oust

Conditional continuous

I would be ousting

you would be ousting

he/she/it would be ousting

we would be ousting

you would be ousting

they would be ousting

Conditional perfect

I would have oust

you would have oust

he/she/it would have oust

we would have oust

you would have oust

they would have oust

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been ousting

you would have been ousting

he/she/it would have been ousting

we would have been ousting

you would have been ousting

they would have been ousting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you oust
we let´s oust
you oust

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to oust

Past participle

ousted

Present Participle

ousting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «OUST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «oust» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of oust

banish · depose · discharge · disinherit · dislodge · dismiss · displace · dispossess · drum out · eject · evict · exclude · exile · expel · relegate · send packing · show someone the door · throw out · topple · turf out · turn out · unseat

TRANSLATION OF OUST

Find out the translation of oust to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of oust from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oust» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 罢黜
• Translator English - Spanish: destituir
• English: oust
• Translator English - Hindi: बेदखल
• Translator English - Arabic: طرد
• Translator English - Russian: вытеснить
• Translator English - Portuguese: expulsar
• Translator English - Bengali: বেদখল করা
• Translator English - French: évincer
• Translator English - Malay: Menggulingkan
• Translator English - German: verdrängen
• Translator English - Japanese: 追い出す
• Translator English - Korean: 축출되다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngilangi
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đuổi
• Translator English - Tamil: வெளியேற்ற
• Translator English - Marathi: काढून टाकणे
• Translator English - Turkish: yerinden etmek
• Translator English - Italian: cacciare
• Translator English - Polish: przepędzić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: витіснити
• Translator English - Romanian: elimina
• Translator English - Greek: εκδιώξουν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verdryf
• Translator English - Swedish: oust
• Translator English - Norwegian: utkonkurrere

QUOTES WITH «OUST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word oust.

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Vincent McNabb

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUST»

Discover the use of oust in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oust and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The War to Oust Saddam Hussein: Just War and the New Face of ...

This is the first and only book to provide a moral analysis of the war in Iraq and its implications for the future of the war and peacemaking.

James Turner Johnson, 2005

Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last ...

In 'Breaking the Real Axis of Evil', Ambassador Mark Palmer presents a controversial argument: that global peace will not be achieved until democracies replace the world's remaining dictatorships.

Mark Palmer, 2005

'Til Dice Do Us Part: A Bunco Babes Mystery

The Bunco Babes are a group of hip retirees who love to play bunco- and addictive game of luck.

Gail Oust, 2010

Whack 'N' Roll: A Bunco Babes Mystery

The Bunco Babes are not your average retires .

Gail Oust, 2009

Tonkawa, an Indian language of Texas

Harry Hoijer. mono“, one falls S. ] toad-12376243", I oust. fall 2 tum-HEM“. thou oust. fullest 3 da-fi'k'ttléw, ho oust. falls nité, out with blade S. l toot-ai'té-Em, 1 oust. out (something) 2 bum-ni'td-Ezm thou oust. outtest 3 it"i-ni'td-mn, he. oust. outs ...

Harry Hoijer

Plants for Toxicity Assessment: Second Volume

CONTROL 0.0001 0.001 Oust Cone. [mg/L] FIG. lb — Change in length of Hydrilla roots and shoots exposed to Oust for seven days. Standard deviations are shown. resulted in a statistically significant two-fold increase in POD activity.

Joseph W. Gorsuch, 1991

Congressional Record, V. 147, PT. 15, October 25, 2001 to ...

IDAHO OUST PROBLEM Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, first I would like to thank Chairman Kohl and Senator Cochran for the hard work they have put into the fiscal year 2002 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. It is a challenging ...

U S Congress, 2006

Crack Arrest Concepts for Failure Prevention and Life Extension

Within this context, the mechanical processes operative during the initiation and arrest of cleavage cracks are briefly compared and contrasted. The empirical evidence for indexing the onset- of-upper-shelf temperature for initiation (OUST) and ...

C. S. Wiesner, 1996

Young Architects: Second Nature

FROM PLAINS OUST TO URBAN OUST 1. THE GREAT PLAINS OIVIOEO 2. SOOBUSTING. THE PLAINS 3. BOILING OUST CLOUOS 4 THE ROAMING OUST BOWL 5. FLEEING A OUST STORM. APRIL 1936 6. BLACK OUST CLOUOS.

Dilip da Cunha, Architectural League of New York, 2001

Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

If OUST lies above CAT, then basing a structural integrity assessment method on OUST will subsume crack arrest. However, recent TWI work (Hayes and Wiesner, 1998) has shown that for a successful use of such an argument, appropriate ...

Jeffery Lewins, Martin Becker, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OUST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oust is used in the context of the following news items.

Defend gun rights, oust Sweet

​​T​he committee to preserve the Second Amendment ha​s ​an obligation to make it known that Feb. 17 Commissioner Bob Main proposed ... «Coos Bay World, Jul 15»

Madison Township residents seeking to oust trustee

MADISON TOWNSHIP – Former staff and volunteers of the Madison Township Fire Department are collecting signatures for the removal of one ... «The Newark Advocate, Jul 15»

Official says union not trying to oust Bernero

LANSING – The business manager of a union that represents about 460 Board of Water & Light employees — and paid for a poll of 400 voters ... «Lansing State Journal, Jul 15»

Nuclear storm brews as board tries to oust energy chief

Necsa faces a leadership crisis at the precise moment the government is on the cusp of issuing the main tender for the nuclear build project. «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»

Ted Cruz Wants to Be Able to Oust Supreme Court Justices

Ted Cruz is plowing ahead with an effort to subject Supreme Court justices to elections, tapping into conservative anger toward the court after ... «Mother Jones, Jul 15»

Dems oust Goldrick, Huffman from BET slate

The Board of Estimate and Taxation will have a new face, and a new personality, as town Democrats chose not to nominate incumbents ... «Greenwich Time, Jul 15»

NDP open to coalition to oust Tories; Grits say no

NDP Finance critic Nathan Cullen, left, and deputy critic Guy Caron hold a press conference in the Foyer of the House of Commons on ... «Simcoe.com, Jul 15»

VOX POPULI: Swift action needed to oust corrupt guardians of …

VOX POPULI: Swift action needed to oust corrupt guardians of mentally incompetent people. July 24, 2015. Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»

CL: Lech Poznan Calmly Oust FK Sarajevo from Europe

POZNAN, Poland. July 23 (PSN) – Lech Poznan defeated FK Sarajevo 1:0 in the second leg of the Second Round of UEFA Champions League ... «PSN, Jul 15»

Inverness must buck Scottish trend to oust Astra

THE bad news for Inverness Caledonian Thistle is that, if they are to pluck a potential plum tie against West Ham United from a first continental ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»