expel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
/ɪkˈspɛl/
Definition of expel
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To eject.
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verb
- (transitive)To eject.
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(obsolete, transitive)To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
“But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.”
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(transitive)To remove from membership.
“He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.”
“She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.”
- (transitive)To deport.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).
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