Expel

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  • transitive verb. To force or drive out.
  • transitive verb. To discharge from or as if from a receptacle.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To drive or force out or away; send off or away by force or constraint; compel to leave; dismiss forcibly or compulsorily: as, to expel air from a bellows or from the lungs; to expel an invader or a traitor from a country; to expel a student from a college, or a member from a club.
  • To exclude; keep out or off.
  • To reject; refuse.
  • Synonyms Exile, Exclude, etc. (see banish), expatriate, ostracize; eject, dislodge.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject.
  • transitive verb. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
  • transitive verb. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like.
  • transitive verb. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
  • transitive verb. To discharge; to shoot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To eject or erupt
  • verb. To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • verb. To remove from membership
  • verb. To deport
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. eliminate (a substance)
  • verb. remove from a position or office
  • verb. cause to flee
  • verb. force to leave or move out
  • Word Usage
    "They have the right to the guarantees of Chapter I of the first title of this Constitution, but the Executive of the Union has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    impel  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    abort  bleed  blow  breathe  cough out  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adel  Adele  Bel  Bell  Belle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abrupt  abstract  alienate  assign  ban  
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    verb-form