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verb (used with object), -pelled, -pel·ling.

to drive or force out or away; discharge or eject: to expel air from the lungs; to expel an invader from a country.

to cut off from membership or relations: to expel a student from a college.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English expellen < Latin expellere to drive out, drive away, equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + pellere to push, drive

Related forms

ex·pel·la·ble, adjective

re·ex·pel, verb (used with object), -pelled, -pel·ling.

un·ex·pel·la·ble, adjective

un·ex·pelled, adjective

Synonyms
2. oust, dismiss, exile, excommunicate.

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Example Sentences

The ministry has never said that a correspondent with a valid visa could be expelled without warning for not having a press card.

And should the student ever commit academic dishonesty a second time, the student is expelled.

Even the recent arrivals from the subcontinent are being treated better and were not expelled.

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The ministry has never said that a correspondent with a valid visa could be expelled without warning for not having a press card.

And should the student ever commit academic dishonesty a second time, the student is expelled.

Even the recent arrivals from the subcontinent are being treated better and were not expelled.

As comets heat up, gas and dust are expelled and trail behind them.

As temperatures rise, temperature-sensitive algae that sustain the coral are expelled or killed.

The negatively charged expelled electrons are drawn back toward the positively charged bubble.

John's expelled one starting basketball player, moved to expel two others and disciplined three reserves last night.

The campus judicial council found him guilty and, since he had a prior offense, recommended that he be expelled for two semesters.

The main meetings were best suited to ballooning enthusiastics, such was the hot air expelled from the stage.

Once food is safely in the stomach, water that was sucked up in the vacuum process is expelled through the gills.

Thujone does indeed stun roundworms, which are then expelled by normal peristaltic action of the intestine.

He had been expelled from the program for misbehavior and later killed himself.

After ten months at the university he was expelled for heaving a brick through a window of the local stationmaster's house.

Penalties could range from a warning letter to being expelled.

Refugees have not returned to the homes from which they were expelled.

Mao challenged convention early in life, and was expelled from school.

Boys are three times more likely to be expelled from school.

Genelex can then see if the drugs will be flushed through the body, build up or be partially absorbed and then expelled.

The incident is one of many in which students have been expelled for violating zero-tolerance policies.

My dear students would be expelled for trying to get away with that.

Sudan said it would not co-operate and expelled ten foreign aid agencies.

He left home to take advantage of a scholarship to a teacher's college but was expelled before he could complete his degree.

There would be no neutron star or black hole remaining, total annihilation except for previously expelled shell material.

The game told the story of a boy who, born with horns, was expelled from his village.

The week that this one appeared one of the active volcanoes erupted and expelled volcanic sand.

When students pawn someone else's work off as their own, they get expelled.

His preschool expelled him after two days for refusing to stay in his chair.

He said you can tell the quality of the digestive ability of the food you are feeding by what is expelled.

The carbon dioxide is then expelled from the lungs during exhalation.

Hussein were never good, souring years before he was expelled over what he said was his criticism.

Microscopic algae, the earliest living organisms, drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and expelled oxygen.

The cells can also be taken from the placenta that is expelled after delivery.

Also, newspaper accounts state that sand and water were expelled from the ground, indicating that liquefaction occured.

The heat caused her muscles to relax and she expelled the eggs intact.

All of the students ultimately withdrew or were expelled from the programs.

If he did so, he and any party member who backed him would be expelled.

I've never heard of anyone being expelled for being gay at all.

Or hope he gets caught with drugs so he can be expelled.

But mainstream economists don't understand that because they have expelled monetary theory from their system.

He was expelled from the school as a result of innapropriate behavior towards the faculty and towards other students.

Tusoteuthis moved via jet propulsion-it expelled water through a siphon on the lower part of its body.

There are losses each time, amongst them, you do not recover the latent heat of water expelled as steam.

In my high school a kid was expelled for bringing and distributing anti-semetic materials at school.

The stellar cores become white dwarfs, which heat up the expelled material to create bright planetary nebulae.

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Word Origin & History

expel

late 14c., from L. expellere "drive out," from ex- "out" + pellere "to drive." Meaning "to eject from a school" is first recorded 1640s. Related: Expelled; expelling.

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