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EXPULSE

Definition: EXPULSE

EXPULSE

Transitive verb

1. To drive out; to expel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXPULSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Etymology: Expulse \Ex*pulse"\, transitive verb. [French expression expulser or Latin expulsare, intens. from expellere. See Expel.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: EXPULSE

Non-English Usage: "EXPULSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (expels).

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Derivations & Misspellings: EXPULSE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXPULSE": expulsed, expulses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EXPULSE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expulge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EXPULSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-s-u-x"

-1 letter: expels, plexus.

-2 letters: expel, lexes, luxes, peels, peles, pules, pulse, sleep, speel.

-3 letters: eels, else, exes, lees, lues, luxe, peel, pees, pele, plus, pule, puls, seel, seep, slue, spue, supe.

-4 letters: eel, els, lee, leu, lex, lux, pee, pes, pul, pus, see, sel, sex, sue, sup, ups, use.

-5 letters: el, es, ex, pe, up, us.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-s-u-x"
 

+1 letter: duplexes, expulsed, expulses, plexuses, sextuple.

 

+2 letters: duplexers, expulsive, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet.

 

+3 letters: amplexuses, exculpates, fourplexes, quadplexes, sextuplets, superhelix.

 

+4 letters: expostulate, hypersexual, multiplexes, superdeluxe.

 

+5 letters: expostulated, expostulates, multiplexers, sextuplicate, superhelixes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXPULSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 50 55 4C 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .--.    ..-    .-..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01010000 01010101 01001100 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

E X P U L S E

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 0055 004C 0053 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39585055465339

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