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move out

v. move out of one's old house or office

take out, move out, remove

v. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

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eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out

v. put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

banish, ban

v. ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

oust

v. remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

remove, transfer

v. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"

evict, force out

v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"

dislodge, bump

v. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"

uproot, deracinate

v. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"

extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber

v. release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

grab, seize

v. capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"

pull

v. hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing; "pull the ball"

detach

v. separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"

detach, come off, come away

v. come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

disengage, withdraw

v. release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears"

twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick

v. twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

twist, twine, distort

v. form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"

entice, lure, tempt

v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

isolate

v. separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them

remove, take away

v. get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"

sequester

v. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"

segregate

v. separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"

shift, dislodge, reposition

v. change place or direction; "Shift one's position"

loosen, loose

v. make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"

tease, tease apart, loosen

v. disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool"

loosen

v. make less dense; "loosen the soil"

evacuate

v. move people from their homes or country

engage, mesh, lock, operate

v. keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

amputate, cut off

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into

v. to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

transplant, transfer

v. lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants"

transplant

v. be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"

banish

v. drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom"

banish, relegate, bar

v. expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"

travel, go, move, locomote

v. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"

move in

v. move into a new house or office

hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride

v. get up on the back of; "mount a horse"

set

v. put into a position that will restore a normal state; "set a broken bone"

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