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ex·pel

(ĭk-spĕl′)

tr.v. ex·pelled, ex·pel·ling, ex·pels

1. To force or drive out: expel an invader.

2. To discharge from or as if from a receptacle: expelled a sigh of relief.

3. To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave: expelled the student from college for cheating.

[Middle English expellen, from Latin expellere : ex-, ex- + pellere, to drive; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

ex·pel′la·ble adj.

ex·pel′ler n.

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expel

(ɪkˈspɛl)

vb (tr) , -pels, -pelling or -pelled

1. to eject or drive out with force

2. (Education) to deprive of participation in or membership of a school, club, etc

[C14: from Latin expellere to drive out, from pellere to thrust, drive]

exˈpellable adj

expellee n

exˈpeller n

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ex•pel

(ɪkˈspɛl)

v.t. -pelled, -pel•ling.

1. to drive or force out or away; discharge; eject.

2. to cut off from membership or relations: to expel a student from a college.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin expellere to drive out, drive away]

ex•pel′la•ble, adj.

ex•pel′ler, n.

expel

Past participle: expelled
Gerund: expelling

Imperative
expel
expel

Present
I expel
you expel
he/she/it expels
we expel
you expel
they expel

Preterite
I expelled
you expelled
he/she/it expelled
we expelled
you expelled
they expelled

Present Continuous
I am expelling
you are expelling
he/she/it is expelling
we are expelling
you are expelling
they are expelling

Present Perfect
I have expelled
you have expelled
he/she/it has expelled
we have expelled
you have expelled
they have expelled

Past Continuous
I was expelling
you were expelling
he/she/it was expelling
we were expelling
you were expelling
they were expelling

Past Perfect
I had expelled
you had expelled
he/she/it had expelled
we had expelled
you had expelled
they had expelled

Future
I will expel
you will expel
he/she/it will expel
we will expel
you will expel
they will expel

Future Perfect
I will have expelled
you will have expelled
he/she/it will have expelled
we will have expelled
you will have expelled
they will have expelled

Future Continuous
I will be expelling
you will be expelling
he/she/it will be expelling
we will be expelling
you will be expelling
they will be expelling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been expelling
you have been expelling
he/she/it has been expelling
we have been expelling
you have been expelling
they have been expelling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been expelling
you will have been expelling
he/she/it will have been expelling
we will have been expelling
you will have been expelling
they will have been expelling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been expelling
you had been expelling
he/she/it had been expelling
we had been expelling
you had been expelling
they had been expelling

Conditional
I would expel
you would expel
he/she/it would expel
we would expel
you would expel
they would expel

Past Conditional
I would have expelled
you would have expelled
he/she/it would have expelled
we would have expelled
you would have expelled
they would have expelled

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Verb	1.	expel - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" kick out, throw out eject, turf out, boot out, chuck out, exclude, turn out - put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" exile, expatriate, deport - expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions" debar, suspend - bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. extradite, deport, deliver - hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there" banish, bar, relegate - expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun, ban - expel from a community or group banish, ban - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
	2.	expel - remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" boot out, drum out, oust, kick out, throw out excommunicate - oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree remove - remove from a position or an office depose, force out - force to leave (an office)
	3.	expel - cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" rout, rout out defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
	4.	expel - eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" eject, exhaust, release, discharge cough out, cough up, expectorate, spit up, spit out - discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth blow - free of obstruction by blowing air through; "blow one's nose" abort - terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion ovulate - produce and discharge eggs; "women ovulate about once every month" egest, excrete, eliminate, pass - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" bleed, hemorrhage, shed blood - lose blood from one's body eruct, spew out, spew - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate" fester, suppurate, maturate - ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" emit, pass off, breathe - expel (gases or odors)

expel

verb

1. throw out, exclude, ban, bar, dismiss, discharge, relegate, kick out (informal), ask to leave, send packing, turf out (informal), black, debar, drum out, blackball, give the bum's rush (slang), show you the door, throw out on your ear (informal) secondary school students expelled for cheating in exams
throw out admit, let in, give access, allow to enter

2. banish, exile, oust, deport, expatriate, evict, force to leave, proscribe An American academic was expelled from the country yesterday.
banish receive, welcome, take in

3. drive out, discharge, throw out, force out, let out, eject, issue, dislodge, spew, belch, cast out Poisonous gas is expelled into the atmosphere.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

expel

verb

1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree:

banish, deport, exile, expatriate, ostracize, transport.

2. To send forth (confined matter) violently:

belch, disgorge, eject, eruct, erupt, spew.

Geology: extravasate.

3. To put out by force:

bump, dismiss, eject, evict, oust, throw out.

Informal: chuck.

Slang: boot (out), bounce, kick out.

Idioms: give someone the boot, give someone the heave-ho, send packing, show someone the door, throw out on one's ear.

Translations

يَتَخَلَّص منيَطْرُدُيَطْرُد، يُبْعِد

vyloučit

bortviseblive af med

vertreiben ausweisen relegieren verweisen

αποβάλλω

expulsar despedir expeler

karkottaa

expulser renvoyer repousser licencier évacuer

izbaciti

kicsap

knÿja út, òrÿsta útreka, vísa á brott

espellere espulso

追い出す

쫓아내다

izraidītizslēgtizspiest

izgnatiizključiti

relegera

ไล่ออก

kovmakkurtulmak

đuổi

开除排出

expel

[ɪksˈpel] VT [+ air] (from container) → arrojar, expeler; [+ person] → expulsar
to get expelled (from school) → ser expulsado

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expel

[ɪkˈspɛl] vt

(= force to leave) [+ inhabitant] → chasser, expulser
to be expelled from sth [+ area, village] → être expulsé(e) de, être chassé(e) de; [+ building] → être expulsé(e) de

[+ pupil] → renvoyer, exclure
to get expelled from → se faire renvoyer de

[+ air, gas] → évacuer, expulser
to expel sth from sth → évacuer qch de qch, expulser qch de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

expel

person → vertreiben; (officially, from country) → ausweisen, ausschaffen (Sw) → (from aus); (from school) → verweisen (→ from von, +gen); (from society) → ausstoßen, ausschließen; evil → austreiben

gas, liquid → ausstoßen; to expel one’s breath → ausatmen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

expel

[ɪksˈpɛl] vt → espellere

expel

(ikˈspel) – past tense, past participle exˈpelled – verb

1. to send away in disgrace (a person from a school etc). The child was expelled for stealing.

2. to get rid of. an electric fan for expelling kitchen smells.

expulsion (ikˈspalʃən) noun

Any child found disobeying this rule will face expulsion from the school.

expel

→ يَطْرُدُ vyloučit bortvise vertreiben αποβάλλω expulsar karkottaa expulser izbaciti espellere 追い出す 쫓아내다 wegzenden kaste ut wydalić expelir исключать relegera ไล่ออก kovmak đuổi 开除

expel

vt. expulsar.

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Our lives, our tears, as water, Are spilled upon the ground; God giveth no man quarter, Yet God a means hath found; Though faith and hope have vanished, And even love grows dim; A means whereby His banished Be not expelled from Him!

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Jupiter, indignant at such inveterate faultfinding, drove him from his office of judge, and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.

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She now first perceived the weakness of which she had been guilty; and though it caused the utmost perturbation in her mind, yet it had the effect of other nauseous physic, and for the time expelled her distemper.

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I was expelled for selling my influence for money."

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And as to being expelled with violence, that event would necessarily come first in this case.

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He was taciturn, and what Philip learnt about him he learnt from others: it appeared that he had fought with Garibaldi against the Pope, but had left Italy in disgust when it was clear that all his efforts for freedom, by which he meant the establishment of a republic, tended to no more than an exchange of yokes; he had been expelled from Geneva for it was not known what political offences.

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Now, Jane, you shall see the entry for which the best-hearted girl in the college is to be expelled. Voila!"

I shall be expelled as certainly as I am sitting here."

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Very quietly I replied that he (the Frenchman) was labouring under a delusion; that perhaps, after all, I should not be expelled from the Baron's presence, but, on the contrary, be listened to; finally, that I should be glad if Monsieur de Griers would confess that he was now visiting me merely in order to see how far I intended to go in the affair.

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He had been expelled the militia regiment in which he once held a commission.

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There never were greater hopes of uniting this people to the Church of Rome, which their adherence to the Eutichian heresy has made very difficult, than in the time of Sultan Segued, who called us into his dominions in the year 1625, from whence we were expelled in 1634.

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"It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible things that he has been expelled by the police."

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