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expulsive
[ ik-spuhl-siv ]
adjective
- tending or serving to expel.
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Other Words From
- nonex·pulsive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of expulsive1
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Example Sentences
The "expulsive power of a new affection" is, after all, the mightiest agency in reform.
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Elimination can only be secured by a proper expulsive effort.
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Von Guericke, however, recognized it as such, and refers to it as what he calls "expulsive virtue."
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The expulsive force of a new emotion had for the time driven out all temptation.
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Occasionally, long passages in music demand that the expulsive power of the breathing apparatus be used to its limit.
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