/ɪkˈspɛl/
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).
- transitiveTo eject.
- obsolete, transitiveTo fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
“But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.”
- transitiveTo 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 su”
- transitiveTo deport.
Formsexpels(present, singular, third-person) · expelling(participle, present) · expelled(participle, past) · expelled(past)