expel
verb/ɪkˈspɛl/
Etymology Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).
1
To eject.
2
Obsolete To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3
To remove from membership.
- He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.
- She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
4
To deport.
- Antonyms
- impel
- Derived terms
- expellable, expellee, expeller, reexpel, unexpelled
- Related terms
- expulsion