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Webster 1913 Edition

Expel

Ex-pel′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Expelled
,
p. pr. & vb. n.
.
Expelling
.]
[L.
expellere
,
expulsum
;
ex
out +
pellere
to drive: cf.F.
expeller
. See
Pulse
a beat.]
1.
To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject;
as, to
expel
air from a bellows
.
Did not ye . . .
expel
me out of my father’s house?
Judg. xi. 7.
2.
To drive away from one's country; to banish.
Forewasted all their land, and them
expelled
.
Spenser.
.
He shall
expel
them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.
Josh. xxiii. 5.
3.
To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like;
as, to
expel
a student or member
.
4.
To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
“To expel the winter's flaw.”
Shak.
5.
To discharge; to shoot.
[Obs.]
Syn. – To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See
Banish
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Expel

EXPEL'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. expello; ex and pello, to drive; from the L. participle.]
1.
To drive or force out from any inclosed place; as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows. [The word is applicable to any force, physical or moral.]
2.
To drive out; to force to leave; as, to expel the inhabitants of a country; to expel wild beasts from a forest.
3.
To eject; to throw out.
4.
To banish; to exile.
5.
To reject; to refuse. [Little used.]
And would you not poor fellowship expel?
6.
To exclude; to keep out or off.
7.
In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.

Definition 2024

expel

expel

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expel ‎(third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled)

  1. To eject or erupt.
  2. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  3. (transitive) To remove from membership.
    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.
  4. (transitive) To deport.

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