Expel

Definitions: Expel

Expel

Verb

1. As from a country.

2. Put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom".

3. Remove from office.

4. Cause to flee.

5. Eliminate, as of bodily substances.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "expel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Expel \Ex*pel"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Expelled, p. pr. vb. noun. Expelling.]. (Websters 1913)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Expel

Disrepute

Tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel; (punish).

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Learning

Dismiss, expel, kick out of school.

Punishment

Banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.

Regression

Put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; (set in rotation); expel.

Crosswords: Expel

Books

• Air-to-air heat exchangers for houses : how to bring fresh air into your home and expel polluted air, while recovering valuable heat (reference)

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Music

• Expel (reference)

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Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm people by 1937, adding to the refugees to the west coast. There are many vacant cabins. Near England, Arkansas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Expel the Chilean junta from the U.N. for violations of the United Nations declaration of human rights ...Credit: Library of Congress.

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Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member. (reference)

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Health

Expectorants help loosen and expel mucus secretions from the airways. (references)

Physical therapy to improve muscle performance and to help the lungs expel mucus. (references)

The infected person may experience high fever, chills, cough, and breathing difficulty and may expel bloody sputum. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

After pressure from the international community, the SDS presidency announced that it would expel the party member. (references)

Turkey

In June the Constitutional Court ruled to close the Islamist Fazilet Party and expel two party members from Parliament. (references)

Hungary

The Constitution provides for these rights, and the Government generally respects them in practice; however, local authorities in some cases have tried to expel Roma from towns. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

Following the Taliban's repeated refusal to expel bin Laden and his group and end its support for international terrorism, the U.S. and its partners in the anti-terrorist coalition began a campaign on October 7, 2001, targeting terrorist facilities and various Taliban military and political assets within Afghanistan. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

The war began in August 1998, when former President Laurent Kabila tried to expel from the country Rwandan military forces that had helped him overthrow Mobutu. (references)

Congo

Laurent Kabila's attempt to expel the Rwandan armed forces was frustrated by the outbreak in August 1998 of a rebellion, led by the RCD. The RCD/Goma was dominated by members of the Tutsi ethnic minority, but from the outset depended heavily on troops, material, and direction from the Government of Rwanda, and, to a lesser extent, the Government of Uganda. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

However, in the late 1980's, concern over the increase in the population of and political agitation among ethnic Nepalese prompted aggressive government efforts to assert a national culture, to tighten control over southern regions, to control illegal immigration, to expel ethnic Nepalese, and to promote national integration. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

The MMD attempted to expel 22 of its M.P.'s who were leaders in the anti-third-term movement following the party's convention in the beginning of May. (references)

Women

Austria

In 1999 legislators passed an amendment to the 1997 Law on the Protection Against Violence in the Family, extending the period during which police can expel abusive family members from family homes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "expel": expel-air.

Albanian

përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, dispense, disqualify, drop, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, forbid, foreclose, oust, reject, rule out, score out, send down, weed out), nxjerr jashtë (eject, evict, gum up, put out), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), gufon (boil, eject, erupt, heave, spout, spring, spurt, vomit), dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, evict, excommunicate, exile, hoot, laugh off, proscribe, rase, raze, rout, send off, send packing, throw out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصل طالبا, ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏نفث (breathe, emit, erupt, expectoration, utter), ‏لفظ (articulate, articulation, discharge, eject, ejection, emission, emit, enunciate, enunciation, pronounce, pronunciation, say, spit, vocalization, vocalize), ‏قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), ‏زفر (breathe, exhale, expire), ‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ‏رحل (be moved, carry, depart, flit, itinerant, migrant, move, pack up, part, pass, peregrinate, pull out, relay, remove, send back, shift, slope). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop), изключвам (disconnect, disengage, eliminate, except, exclude, foreclose, intercept, leave out, open, preclude, remove, rule out, shut off, throw out, trip, ungear), изпъждам (dispossess, fire, oust, out, shoo, supplant, thrust forth). (various references)

Chinese 

逐出 . (various references)

Czech

vypovìdìt (annul, banish, declare, denounce, deport, discontinue, exile, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, terminate, warn, warn off), vylouèit (debar, disqualify, eliminate, except, exclude, foreclose, negate, pip, preclude, remove, rule out, shut, shut off, throw out), vykázat (eject), vyhostit (banish, deport, exile), vyhnat (discomfit, eject, oust, rout, spring, sprout, throw out, turn out). (various references)

Dutch

verjagen (chase away, deter, discourage, drive away, scare). (various references)

Esperanto

forpeli (chase away, drive away). (various references)

Farsi 

منفصل کردن (Sever), بیرون انداختن (Bounce, Eject, Excrete, Sputter), بزورخارج کردن . (various references)

Finnish

karkottaa (chase, deport, dispel, drive, drive away, drive on, impel, shoo, turn out). (various references)

French

renvoyer, expulser. (various references)

Frisian

ferjeie (chase away, drive away), ferdriuwe (chase away, drive away). (various references)

German

ausweisen (chase away, deport, drive away, identify, reveal, to expel), vertreiben (banish, chase away, chase off, dislodge, dispel, dispelled, distributes, drive away, drive off, drive out, fend off, hound out, market, move, oust, place on the market, put on the market, repel, repulse, sell, sold, to banish, to dislodge, to dispel, to drive away, to launch on the market, to market), ausstoßen (banish, bring out, discharge, disgorge, drive out, drop, ejaculate, eject, eliminate, emit, extrude, fetch, fire, give off, gush, heave, jet, jettison, let out, pour forth, produce, puff, puff out, put out, rap out, scream out, send out, spit out, spout, to churn out, to expel, to extrude, to jet, turn out, utter). (various references)

Greek 

απελαύνω (deport), αποβάλλω (abort, cast off, discard, elide, expel from, miscarry, repudiate, send down, send out 1, shed). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שליך (cast, cast away, pitch, shed, throw), ל�"�"יח (banish, dismiss, lead astray), ל�'רש (drive out, eject, evict, kick out, oust, send packing, throw out, turn out), לטרו�" (annoy, bother, disturb, drive away, harass, trouble), ל� �"ות (banish, cast out, excommunicate, ostracize, remove). (various references)

Hungarian

kitesz (add up to, amount to, display, expose, put out, set out, throw out, to can, to display, to expel, to put through, to set out), kiûz (drive out). (various references)

Indonesian

mengeluarkan (educe, elicit, excrete, secrete). (various references)

Italian

espellere (discharge, eject, evict, excrete, oust, to disroot, to root out, to unroot), emettere (breathe, deliver, discharge, draw, ejaculate, eject, emit, express, give out, heave, issue, output, ray, release, send out, spend, spew, utter, write out), scacciare (chase, dispel, drive away, drive out, shut out), radiare (condemn, strike off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

追い出す (to drive out, to expel), �"�り出す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to give up, to neglect, to throw out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おい� す (to drive out, to expel), ほうり� す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to give up, to neglect, to throw out). (various references)

Korean 

�"방하십시�" (Deport). (various references)

Manx

ruightey (drive, drive out, expulsion), geiyrt ersooyl, cur ass scoill. (various references)

Norwegian

utvise, fordrive (dispossess, eject). (various references)

Pig Latin

expelay

Portuguese

expelir (bolt, disgorge, dislodge, puff, put out), rechaçar (chase away, drive away, repel, repulse), rápido (active, clear-sighted, crisp, double quick, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, hasty, hurry, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, riffle, safe and pleasant, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged), afugentar (chase, chase away, drive away, drive one crazy, earth). (various references)

Romanian

expulza (banish, bounce, exclude), exila (banish, exile, proscribe, relegate, withdraw), excomunica (excommunicate), exclude (bar, cut, disbar, exclude, excommunicate, oust, preclude, rule out, suspend), elimina (cashier, cut out, eliminate, erase, liberate, ooze, oust, pass, put out, remove), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), ostraciza (banish, exclude, ostracize), izgoni (banish, cast off, cast out, chase away, drive away, eject, pack off), da afarã (boot out, boot round, brush off, cashier, cast up, chuck out, depose, discharge, dismiss, drop, ejaculate, fire, give notice, kick out, order out, oust, pack off, put out, sack, throw out), alunga (banish, bar, cast out, chase away, dislodge, dismiss, drive away, eject, exorcise, exorcize, hound, remove, send away). (various references)

Russian 

исключать (bar, be exclusive of, delete, eliminate, except, exclude, foreclose, gate out, oust, rule out, truncate). (various references)

Scottish

fògair (banish, chase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proterati (banish, banishment, deport, expatriate, relegate), potisnuti (hold at bay, push down, relegate, repress, throw back, upstage), isterati (dislodge, drive out, evict, exorcise, exorcize, oust, push out, ride, run out, scavenge, throw out). (various references)

Spanish

expulsar (drive out, eject, kick out, oust, out, push out, put out, scavenge, send down, send off, throw out, thrust out, turf out, turn out). (various references)

Swedish

relegera (send down), fördriva (dislodge, dispossess, drive away, drive out, evict, loaf away, oust, pass). (various references)

Turkish

sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürgün etmek (banish, deport, exile, expatriate, ostracize, relegate), kovmak (ax, axe, banish, boot, bounce, can, cashier, cast out, chuck out, dislodge, dismiss, drive away, drive out, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, exclude, exile, fend off, fire, get rid of, give smb. the bag, give smb. the chuck, give smb. the gate, give smb. the push, give the sack, kick out, make a clean sweep of, order away, order out, out, pack off, repulse, sack, send away, shoo, shoo away, show out, show smb. the door, show the door, turf out, turn away, turn out), dışarı atmak (out, put out, run out, shoot out, throw out, turf out), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukranian 

виштовхувати (detrude, project, pump, thrust forward), виключати (arrest, bar, count out, cut away, cut off, declutch, dismember, eliminate, except, exclude, foreclose, open, oust, rule out, send down, shut out), виганяти (banish, boo, boot out, chase, dislodge, dispossess, eject, evict, exclude, exile, oust, proscribe, put out of, send off, throw out, thrust out, turn out). (various references)

Welsh

diarddel (excommunicate). (various references)

abdicamus, abegit, abigantur, abigebat, abigere, abigerunt, abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, absterget, abstersit, eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, eieceram, eiecerat, eiecerint, eiecero, eiecerunt, eieci, eiecimus, eiecique, eiecissent, eiecisset, eiecisti, eiecistis, eiecit, eiecitque, eiecta, eiectam, eiecti, eiectis, eiecto, eiectos, eiectum, elidantur, elidatur, elides, elidet, elidit, elisa, elisabeth, elisi, elisisti, elisit, elisus, emiserit, emiserunt, emisi, emisisset, emisisti, emisit, emissa, emissae, emissarum, emissiones, emissus, emittam, emittamque, emittat, emitte, emittendum, emittens, emittere, emitteris, emittes, emittet, emittis, emittit, exactus, exegissem, exegit, exigaris, exigatis, exigere, exiges, expellam, expelle, expellens, expellere, expellerent, expelleret, expellet, expelletur, expelli, expellit, expellitur, expello (expuli expulsum ), expulerat, expulerunt, expuli, expulisti, expulistis, expulit, expulsi, expulsus, exterminabat, exterminabitur, exterminabo, exterminabuntur, exterminandi, exterminare, exterminarentur, exterminaret, exterminari, exterminastis, exterminata, exterminati, exterminatore, exterminaturum, exterminaverunt, exterminavi, exterminavit, exterminentur, extermineris, exterminet, exterminia, exterminii, exterminio, exterminium, helisu, inexterminabilem. (various references)

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "expel": expellable, expelled, expellee, expellees, expeller, expellers, expelling, expels. (additional references)

Words ending with "expel": reexpel. (additional references)

Words containing "expel": reexpelled, reexpelling, reexpels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Expel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empel, eople, epeal, Epeli, epelo, Ephel, epil, eppel, Eppell, Exel, exell, exelp, exeq, exmple, expat, expec, expei, expek, expell, exper, expl, expla, extel, Jexreel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: peel, pele.

-2 letters: eel, lee, lex, pee.

-3 letters: el, ex, pe.

+1 letter: expels.

+2 letters: example, exciple, exempla, explode, explore, expulse, perplex, poleaxe, reexpel.

+3 letters: cineplex, diplexer, duplexed, duplexer, duplexes, exampled, examples, exciples, exemplar, exemplum, expelled, expellee, expeller, expertly, expiable, exploded, exploder, explodes, explored, explorer, explores, expulsed, expulses, plexuses, poleaxed, poleaxes, reexpels, sextuple.

+4 letters: complexed, complexer, complexes, diplexers, duplexers, exculpate, exemplars, exemplary, exemplify, expellees, expellers, expelling, explained, explainer, explanted, expletive, expletory, explicate, exploders, exploited, exploiter, explorers, explosive, expressly, expulsive, metroplex, perplexed, perplexes, preexilic, reexplore, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, simplexes, triplexes, xenophile, xerophile.

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