to expel
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5.0
- verb
- /ɪkˈspɛl/
- And this time they voted to expel me from the program.
- expelled from the country
- expelled journalists
- expelled from the party
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Watch on YouTubeTell me again why you were expelled from the college?
- Tell me again why you were expelled from the college?
- And this time they voted to expel me from the program.
- Plus, Representative George Santos has just been expelled from the House.
- People began getting expelled in my dorm for the riot.
- And they had been expelled as members for doing that.
- And now he's going to be censured, potentially expelled from the house.
- And if they did, can they be expelled from Congress?
- I got expelled from school for a load of things.
- So I got expelled from a school called Embrick.
- People have been expelled from paradise.
- OK, OK, what did you nearly get expelled for?
- You can have professional societies from which people can be expelled if they, you know, behave badly.
- But so I got kicked out of school, I got expelled.
- But there was no a general order or plan or policy to expel the Arab systematically.
- It's it's like the country kicks you out, you get expelled.
Examples
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And if they did, can they be expelled from Congress?
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Tell me again why you were expelled from the college?
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Tomorrow you are going to be expelled.
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If you fail to follow these simple orders, you will be expelled, with no refund.
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This is the third school that Ezra's been expelled from.
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Plus, Representative George Santos has just been expelled from the House.
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Most of the German residents were expelled, although pockets of ethnic Germans remain in Poland.
Academic text (1991) -
In the end, Turkey expelled almost 1.5 million people, and Greece expelled almost 400,000.
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Thousands were expelled, and those who stayed risked persecution.
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The school decided to expel the student for repeated violations of the code of conduct.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
524
3.0
Force someone to leave a place or group
472
2.8
To make someone or something leave a place
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3.0
To force someone to leave a place, job, or group
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5.5
To force someone to leave a country for legal or political reasons
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3.0
Make someone leave a job or group because of a problem
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3.8
Force someone or something to leave a place
107
6.3
Force someone to leave a place or group and not let them return
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4.6
To make someone leave a house or land by court order
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4.4
To make someone leave a job by pressure or threats
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6.2
To remove someone from power, often suddenly or by force
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5.6
To force someone to leave their country, often for political reasons
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6.2
Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them
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4.2
Force someone to leave a place
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7.4
To remove a leader from office, often by force
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7.8
A sudden removal of people from an organization for political reasons
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7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
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9.3
To officially stop someone from being a member of a church as punishment
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5.8
Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly
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4.9
To make someone leave a place
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7.4
Make someone leave a group or job in a public, shameful way
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5.0
To force someone to leave a place usually because they cause trouble
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7.1
To force someone or something out of a place by searching
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8.6
Make a student leave college or university for a short time as punishment
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8.2
Force someone to leave a place or job
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7.7
To force someone to leave their country as punishment
To stop employing someone, often suddenly as punishment
To make someone leave quickly to show they are not wanted
Antonyms
How Forceful
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5.6
107
6.3
188
5.0
70
6.2
- Informal
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7.9
∞
1.5
87
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
expel = ex + pel
The meaning 'drive out' can be parsed as ex- (out) + pel (drive), but 'pel' is a non-standalone combining form in English, so learners may not recognise the base directly.
Etymology
Expel comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and pellere 'to drive', and you can see the same root in propel. So to expel a person is to 'drive out' or force them to leave a place.