expel
English
Etymology
Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛl/
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Verb
expel (third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled)
- To eject or erupt.
- (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:
- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.
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- (transitive) To remove from membership.
- Synonyms: drive away, drive out, force out
- He was expelled from school multiple times.
- 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
- She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
- (transitive) To deport.
Synonyms
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- fordrive, turf out
Antonyms
- impel
Related terms
- expulsion
Translations
to eject
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to remove from membership
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to deport
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