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verb

Expel v. t. (past & past part. expelled; pres. part. expelling)

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?"

To drive away from one's country; to banish. "Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.". "He shall expel them from before you... and ye shall possess their land."

To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw."

To discharge; to shoot. (Obs.) "Then he another and another (shaft) did expel.".

Synonyms: To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.

noun

expelling n. Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

Synonyms: discharge, emission.

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Etymology of 'Expelling'

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"Expelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... succession might be not undeservedly set down as founders of the parts, at least of the city, which they added as new residences for the population augmented by themselves. Nor is there a doubt but that the very same Brutus who earned so much glory for expelling this haughty monarch, would have done so to the greatest injury of the public weal, if, through an over-hasty desire of liberty, he had wrested the kingdom from any of the preceding kings. For what would have been the consequence if ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... farmhouse, and they beheld the straggler, the man who had been arrested as a spy, come forth, free, accompanied only by a single officer. He had likely had papers to show, or had trumped up a story of some kind, for they were simply expelling him from the camp. In the darkening twilight, and at the distance they were, they could not make him out distinctly, only a big, square-shouldered fellow with a rough shock of reddish hair. And yet Maurice gave vent to an exclamation ...

— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... ship when attempting to enforce the order, and the Government ordered H.M.C.S. Rainbow to intervene. By a curious irony of history, the first occasion on which this first Canadian warship was called on to display force was in expelling from Canada the subjects of another part of the British Empire. Further trouble followed when the Sikhs reached Calcutta in September, 1914, for riots took place involving serious loss of life and later an abortive attempt at rebellion. Fortunately there were ...

— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton

... the Emperor against Christianity; no fewer than three hundred churches were destroyed, and all Catholic missionaries were thenceforward obliged to live either at Peking or at Macao. In 1732 he thought of expelling them altogether; but finding that they were enthusiastic teachers of filial piety, he left them alone, merely prohibiting fresh ...

— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles

... expose themselves before God and man: it was all useless, my virgins screamed in chorus—"No, that they would never do, but to the cloister they would not return till the princely answer arrived, expelling the dragon for ever. Let what would become of them, they would not return. The jewel of their honour was dearer to them ...

— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold

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