expulsive

American  

[ik-spuhl-siv] / ɪkˈspʌl sɪv /

adjective

1. tending or serving to expel.

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expulsive British  

/ ɪkˈspʌlsɪv /

adjective

1. tending or serving to expel

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Other Word Forms

• nonexpulsive adjective

Etymology

Origin of expulsive

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French expulsive (feminine) < Medieval Latin expulsīvus. See expulsion, -ive

Example Sentences

In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

Surely because, to use the forcible language of Chalmers, “the expulsive power of a superior affection” had begun to make such exhibitions distasteful to him.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.

I have rarely seen stronger expulsive pains than she had towards the last; the arch of the pubes being rather contracted, and the child full-sized.

From Parturition without Pain or Loss of Consciousness by Townley, James

Of these three modes the effusive is by far the most important, but the others, and especially the expulsive, have their uses also.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

The administration of nitrous oxid analgesia or anesthesia does not interfere with or lessen the uterine contractions or expulsive efforts on the part of the mother—at least not to any appreciable extent.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.