expel
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 of expel
1Other words for expel
Other words from expel
- ex·pel·la·ble, adjective
- re·ex·pel, verb (used with object), re·ex·pelled, re·ex·pel·ling.
- un·ex·pel·la·ble, adjective
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How to use expel in a sentence
Once people are part of the service, our leadership must be ruthless in discipling and expelling those who drift in this direction.
The U.S. Military Needs to Fight Extremism in Its Own Ranks. Here's How | James Stavridis | February 5, 2021 | TimeWater vapor expelled by the wearer’s body can fit between those scales and is absorbed by the hollow interior.
The Kora Xenolith Is My Secret Weapon Against the Cold | Wes Siler | February 2, 2021 | Outside OnlineNow Hogg is calling on House Republicans to strip Greene of her committee assignments and expel her from Congress.
How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans | Michael Kranish, Reis Thebault, Stephanie McCrummen | January 30, 2021 | Washington PostThe tech titans have already booted dozens of conservatives off social media, and if they have their way, half the House Republican conference will be expelled from Congress.
Rupert Murdoch blasts ‘wave of censorship’ and ‘woke orthodoxy’ | Erik Wemple | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostMy preferred method to expel excess moisture is to return the drained vegetables to the pot over low heat and stir for a minute or two before proceeding.
Potatoes aren’t the only vegetables you should be mashing | Aaron Hutcherson | January 20, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools | Zephyr Teachout | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSimultaneously, a brigade of mercenaries and Congolese soldiers would seal off the city and expel the guerrillas.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter investigating the case and bringing together all of the evidence I moved to expel him from the Senate.
And Now Mitch McConnell Is the ‘Pro-Woman’ Candidate! | Eleanor Clift | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs 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.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesAccording to the Meaux chronicler, he proceeded to expel them; but the particular acts are not recorded.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonIt never will be popular until the light which men hate shall expel the darkness which they love.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordThe foreign governments rained threats on the Federal Diet to make it expel the refugees.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingEarly in the fourteenth century the Irish septs united so far as to form a joint effort to expel the English.
Is Ulster Right? | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for expel
/ (ɪkˈspɛl) /
to eject or drive out with force
to deprive of participation in or membership of a school, club, etc
Origin of expel
1Derived forms of expel
- expellable, adjective
- expellee (ˌɛkspɛˈliː), noun
- expeller, noun
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