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expel
[ ik-spel ]
verb (used with object)
- 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.
Synonyms: excommunicate, exile, dismiss, oust
expel
/ ɪkˈspɛl; ˌɛkspɛˈliː /
verb
- to eject or drive out with force
- to deprive of participation in or membership of a school, club, etc
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Derived Forms
- expellee, noun
- exˈpeller, noun
- exˈpellable, adjective
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Other Words From
- ex·pel·la·ble adjective
- re·ex·pel verb (used with object) reexpelled reexpelling
- un·ex·pel·la·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of expel1
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Example Sentences
They wanted to expel the demons which they believed caused impure thoughts.
They expel difficult students and refuse to admit students that public schools have to admit—like kids with disabilities.
Simultaneously, a brigade of mercenaries and Congolese soldiers would seal off the city and expel the guerrillas.
After investigating the case and bringing together all of the evidence I moved to expel him from the Senate.
As an Ebola patient slips from bad to worse to dire, he can expel as many as two and a half gallons of effluvia a day.
The power to expel members is incident to every society or association unless organized primarily for gain.
According to the Meaux chronicler, he proceeded to expel them; but the particular acts are not recorded.
It never will be popular until the light which men hate shall expel the darkness which they love.
The foreign governments rained threats on the Federal Diet to make it expel the refugees.
Early in the fourteenth century the Irish septs united so far as to form a joint effort to expel the English.
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