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Lusted vs Ousted - What's the difference?

lusted | ousted |

As verbs the difference between lusted and ousted

is that lusted is (lust) while ousted is (oust).

lusted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lust)

    • lust

    English

    (wikipedia lust)

    Noun

  • A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    • Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
  • (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
    • The boarders hide their lust to go home.
  • * Spenser
    • For little lust had she to talk of aught.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • My lust to devotion is little.
  • (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
    • An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
  • (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murder

    Related terms

    * wanderlust

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To desire very strongly.
    • She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.
  • To crave sexual contact urgently.

    • Anagrams

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    ousted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (oust)

    • Anagrams

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    oust

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To expel; to remove.
    • The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.

    Synonyms

    * banish, dismiss, eject, exclude, reject

    Antonyms

    * accept, harbor, shelter

    Derived terms

    * oustee * ouster

    Anagrams

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