EXPEL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Expel

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪkspˈɛl/ Listen

verb

Expel v. t. (past & past part. expelled; pres. part. expelling)

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows. "Did not ye... expel me out of my father's house?"

To drive away from one's country; to banish. "Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.". "He shall expel them from before you... and ye shall possess their land."

To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw."

To discharge; to shoot. (Obs.) "Then he another and another (shaft) did expel.".

Synonyms: To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.

See images of 'Expel'

Etymology of 'Expel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Expel" Quotes from Famous Books

... equally faithful to their work. Even the consul Popillius, one of the presidents of the commission that tried the Gracchan rioters, has left a record of his activity in the words that he was "the first to expel shepherds from their domains and install farmers in their stead".[440] The boundary stones of the commissioners still survive to mark the care with which they defined the limits of occupied land and of the new allotments; and the great increase ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... fomented rebellion. They have been compared by Merivale to the Montagnards of the French Revolution, driven by their own indomitable passion to assert the truths that possessed them with a ferocity that no possession could justify. They were continually rousing the people to expel the foreign rulers, and in the northern province of Galilee, where they found shelter amid the wild tracts of heath and mountain, they maintained a ...

— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... population to pay for better habitations, or to appreciate the need for light and air. Rather, we are urged to fix responsibility upon the individual owner who receives rent from slum tenements. Perhaps we can not imprison him for his misdeeds, but we can make him an object of public reproach; expel him from social intercourse (if that, so often talked about, is ever done); fasten his iniquities upon him if ever he seeks a post of trust or honor; and ultimately we can deprive him of his property. Let him and his anti-social interests be ...

— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

... of my country. They were the first to rise against the Moors and expel them from the kingdom. The forces of Rome were routed by our shepherd-hero, Viriatus. After his death our country languished until Alonzo of Spain arose, whose renown spread far and wide because of his ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... Should he now be expelled, I wish with all the devotion of a Christian, that the names of Whig and Tory may never more be mentioned; but should the Tories give him encouragement to come, or assistance if he come, I as sincerely wish that our next year's arms may expel them from the continent, and the Congress appropriate their possessions to the relief of those who have suffered in well-doing. A single successful battle next year will settle the whole. America could carry on a two years' ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

More quotes...