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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ex·pel (ex·pelled ; ex·pel·ling) ETYMOLOGY Middle English expellen, from Latin expellere, from ex- + pellere to drive — more at felt DATE 14th century 1. to force out : eject expelled the smoke from her lungs 2. to force to leave (as a place or organization) by official action :take away rights or privileges of membership expelled from college Synonyms: see eject English Etymology expel late 14c., from L. expellere "drive out," from ex- "out" + pellere"to drive." Meaning "to eject from a school" is first recorded 1640s. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 expel expel / ik5spel / verb(-ll-) [VN] ~ sb / sth (from sth) 1. to officially make sb leave a school or an organization 把…开除(或除名): She was expelled from school at 15. 她 15 岁时被学校开除了。 Olympic athletes expelled for drug-taking 因服禁药被取消比赛资格的奥运会运动员 2. to force sb to leave a country 驱逐出境: Foreign journalists are being expelled. 外国记者被驱逐出境。 3. (technical 术语) to force air or water out of a part of the body or from a container 排出；喷出: to expel air from the lungs 用力呼出肺里的气 ⇨ see also expulsion Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English expel verb ADV. forcibly They were forcibly expelled from their farm by the occupying authorities. PREP. for, from He was expelled from school for disruptive behaviour. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition v. Function: verb 1 Synonyms: ERUPT 1, belch, disgorge, eject, eruct, irrupt, spew Related Words: blow off, blow out, ejaculate, exhaust 2 Synonyms: BANISH , cast out, deport, displace, exile, expatriate, expulse, ||lag, oust, transport Related Words: drum out, read out; eliminate, turn out; ||bounce Idioms: give (one) the boot, give the bum's rush, give the old heave-ho, send to Coventry, throw out on one's ear Antonyms: admit Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ex·pel \ikˈspel, ek-\ transitive verb (expelled ; expelled ; expelling ; expels) Etymology: Middle English expellen, from Latin expellere, from ex- ex- (I) + pellere to drive — more at felt 1. : to force out from or as if from a receptacle : drive out : cast out : eject , dislodge < the gigantic explosion … expelled some four and a half cubic miles of pumice — Howel Williams > < filled her lungs with a long inhalation and expelled the smoke — B.A.Williams > < superstitions become lodged in our mental constitutions and sometimes are modified or expelled only with the greatest difficulty — F.A.Geldard > 2. : to drive away from a place or country : compel to leave < citizens organized vigilante committees and expelled or subdued the undesirables — American Guide Series: Tennessee > specifically : deport < an alien within a deportable class had to be expelled — Harvard Law Review > 3. : to cut off from membership in or the privileges of an institution or society < the boy attended school but was expelled for fighting with his teacher — A.F.Harlow > 4. obsolete : to dismiss from attention or consideration : refuse < would you not poor fellowship expel, myself would offer you to accompany — Edmund Spenser > 5. obsolete : to keep out : exclude < O, that that earth … should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw — Shakespeare > 6. obsolete : discharge , shoot < was not slow to expel the shaft from her contracted bow — John Dryden > Synonyms: see eject |
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