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Thrown out of the game
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ejected
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eject \E*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting .] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person ...
Usage examples of ejected.
His parachute was equipped with an emergency beeper that would have squalled over Guard channel if he had ejected, but nothing had been heard that afternoon.
They either know that you were shot down or you had engine failure or you ejected or something.
Gorton reached across, took the rifle away, ejected the magazine, and closed the bolt.
He ejected the magazine from his rifle and fished in his bandolier for another, becoming acutely aware that he was running dangerously low.
Gant had to be alive - the Russian activity confirmed that - but had he ejected or landed?
Gant fumblingly ejected the cartridge, thrust a new round into the breech, raised the gun - two more dogs, now on the ice, but he could no longer care even about dogs - and fired.
What bothered him was that the pilot of the third Mig ejected without having a missile on his tail .
In addition, the URT-33 had broadcast his position to everyone from the moment he had ejected until he had finally shut it off.
The death toll was up to eight, not counting the two pilots who ejected over Iraq.
Another frantic slave-child was ejected upwards from the scrum by the door, screaming until it slapped into the ceiling and dropped lifeless to the slowly tilting deck.
Would it come splattering up out of him, some ghastly lung-vomit, ejected, left drooped over the side of the gascraft like some pale blue mass of seaweed, leaving him to gasp and choke and die?
It was not by itself a state of disgrace - it was often compared to a person becoming a monk or a nun - though if it had been imposed on rather than chosen by a Dweller it was certainly a sign that they might later become an Outcast, and physically ejected from their home planet, a sanction which, given the relaxed attitude Dwellers displayed to both interstellar travel times and spaceship-construction quality control, was effectively a sentence of somewhere between several thousand years solitary confinement, and death.
A very small fraction of the ejected rocks, millions of years later, may intercept another world.
We know that a fraction of the ejected debris stays cool throughout the processes of impact, ejection, and interception by another world.
Those on highly elliptical trajectories, those that cross the orbits of other planets, Will sooner or later collide or, by a near miss, be gravitationally ejected from the Solar System.