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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. force to leave or move out;
- Example: "He was expelled from his native country"
[syn: expel, throw out, kick out]

2. remove from a position or office;
- Example: "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"
[syn: oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]

3. cause to flee;
- Example: "rout out the fighters from their caves"
[syn: rout, rout out, expel]

4. eliminate (a substance);
- Example: "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"
- Example: "the plant releases a gas"
[syn: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?
                                                  --Judg. xi. 7.
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   2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
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            Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.
                                                  --Spenser.
      .
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            He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye
            shall possess their land.             --Josh. xxiii.
                                                  5.
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   3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of
      learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student
      or member.
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   4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the
      winter's flaw." --Shak.
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   5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]
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            Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.
                                                  --Spenser.
      .

   Syn: To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

expel
    v 1: force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his
         native country" [syn: expel, throw out, kick out]
    2: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted
       after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out,
       drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]
    3: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" [syn:
       rout, rout out, expel]
    4: eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted
       in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" [syn: exhaust,
       discharge, expel, eject, release]