Dictionary Definition
expel
Verb
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 a position or office; "The chairman
was ousted after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out,
drum
out, boot out,
kick
out]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
(rare)- To eject or erupt
- To remove from membership
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
to eject
- Finnish: poistaa
to remove from membership
Extensive Definition
Related:
Expulsion may refer to:
- Expulsion (academia), removing a student from a school or university
- Deportation, the expulsion of someone from a country
- Population transfer, the forced migration of people by the state
- Repatriation was a Soviet name for expulsion of Poles from the Soviet Union
- Expulsion from caucus
See also
expel in Catalan: Expulsió
expel in German: Vertreibung
expel in Spanish: Expulsión
expel in French: Expulsion
expel in Hungarian: Németek kitelepítése
expel in Japanese: ドイツ人追放
expel in Norwegian: Eksklusjon
expel in Polish: Wysiedlenia Niemców po II
wojnie światowej
expel in Romanian: Expulzarea germanilor după al
doilea război mondial
expel in Russian: Изгнание
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abrupt,
abstract, alienate, assign, ban, banish, bar, belch, blackball, blow, blow off, blow out, boot, boot out, bounce, break, breathe, breathe hard, breathe
in, breathe out, bump,
bust, can, carry over, cashier, cast, cast forth, cast off, cast
out, chuck, chuck out,
clear, clear away, clear
out, clear the decks, communicate, consign, cough, cut, cut adrift, cut off, cut out,
debar, debouch, decant, deconsecrate, defenestrate, defrock, degrade, delete, deliver, demote, depart, deplume, deport, depose, deprive, dethrone, detrude, diffuse, disarticulate, disbar, discard, discharge, disconnect, discrown, disembogue, disemploy, disengage, disenthrone, disfellowship, disgorge, disjoin, disjoint, dislodge, dismiss, displace, displume, dispose of, dispossess, disseminate, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, drive out, drum out,
ejaculate, eject, elide, eliminate, eradicate, eruct, erupt, estrange, evict, exclude, excommunicate, exhale, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expire, export, extradite, extravasate, extrude, fire, force out, fugitate, furlough, gasp, get quit of, get rid of, get
shut of, give, give the ax,
give the gate, give the hook, gulp, hack, hand forward, hand on, hand
over, heave out, hiccup,
huff, impart, import, inhale, inspire, irrupt, isolate, jet, jettison, junk, kick, kick downstairs, kick out,
kick upstairs, lag, lay off,
leave, let go, let out,
liquidate, make over,
make redundant, maroon,
metastasize,
metathesize,
obtrude, ostracize, oust, outlaw, outpour, overthrow, pant, part, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the
buck, pension, pension
off, perfuse, pick out,
pour, pour forth, pour out,
proscribe, puff, pull away, pull back, pull
out, purge, push out, put
out, read out of, reject,
relay, release, relegate, remove, remove from office,
replace, respire, retire, root out, root up,
rusticate, sack, segregate, send away, send
down, send forth, send out, send to Coventry, separate, separate forcibly,
sequester, set apart,
set aside, show the door, shut off, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snub, snuff, snuffle, spew, split, spout, spread, spurn, spurt, squirt, stand aloof, stand apart,
stand aside, step aside, strike off, strike out, strip, strip of office, strip of
rank, subtract,
superannuate,
surplus, suspend, switch, throw away, throw off,
throw out, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, toss out,
transfer, transfer
property, transfuse,
translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, turn off, turn out,
turn over, unchurch,
uncouple, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, unyoke, weed out, wheeze, withdraw