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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To eject from a position or place; force out: "the American Revolution, which ousted the English” ( Virginia S. Eifert).
  2. v. To take the place of, especially by force; supplant. See Synonyms at eject.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To take away; remove.
  2. To turn out; eject; dispossess.
  3. n. Same as oast.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To expel; to remove.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See oast.
  2. v. To take away; to remove.
  3. v. To eject; to expel; to turn out.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. remove and replace
  2. v. remove from a position or office

Etymologies

  1. Middle English ousten, from Anglo-Norman ouster, from Latin obstāre, to hinder; see obstacle.

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