Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expel"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Expel \Ex*pel"\, v. 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.]

Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.
--Spenser.
.

Syn: To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See {Banish}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

expel
v 1: as from a country [syn: {throw out}, {kick out}]
2: put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from
the classroom" [syn: {eject}, {chuck out}, {exclude}, {throw
out}, {kick out}, {turf out}, {boot out}, {turn out}]
3: remove from office [syn: {oust}, {throw out}, {drum out}, {boot
out}, {kick out}]
4: cause to flee [syn: {rout}, {rout out}]
5: eliminate, as of bodily substances [syn: {discharge}, {eject},
{release}]


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