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/ɪkspˈɛlɪŋ/ 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.

noun

expelling n. Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

Synonyms: discharge, emission.

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Etymology of 'Expelling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... England should be strengthened by the marriage of Louis, eldest son of the count, to one of Edward's daughters. More than this, they offered to create a diversion for the English forces acting in Guienne and Gascony by raising a strong force and expelling the French garrisons still remaining in some parts of the country. This was done. Hugo of Hastings was appointed by the king captain-general in Flanders, and with a force of English and Flemings did good service by expelling the French from Termond and ...

— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty

... hand, there is conclusive ancient evidence. Hiero the First, tyrant of Syracuse, who reigned about twelve years (478-467), and amongst other efforts after magnificence invited to his court famous poets and men of letters, had founded a new town, Aetna, on the site of Catana which he captured, expelling the inhabitants. Among his guests were Aeschylus, Pindar, Bacchylides and Simonides. About 476 Aeschylus was entertained by him, and at his request wrote and exhibited a play called The Women of Aetna in honour of the new town. He paid a second visit about 472, the year ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... air is inspired—that is, taken in—it appears to be done in the same manner as in health; it may possibly be done a little quicker than natural, but not enough to attract any notice. It is when the act of expiration (or expelling the air from the lungs) is performed that the great change in the breathing is perceptible. It must be remembered that the lungs have lost much of their elasticity, and in consequence of their power ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... Athens, and instead of spending a few weeks in ravaging Attica, now intrenched themselves, and issued out in excursions until they had destroyed all that was valuable in the neighborhood of Athens. The great calamities which the Athenians had suffered prevented them from expelling the invaders, and the city itself was now in the condition of a post besieged. All the accumulations in her treasury were exhausted, and she was compelled to dismiss even her Thracian mercenaries. They were sent back to ...

— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord

... titles. This anomalous state of things was met in degree by the statute of prescriptions, but even this did not entirely cure the defect in the titles to the principal estates in the Kingdom. The English tenants in decapitating one landlord and expelling another, appear to have destroyed their titles, and then endeavored to renew them by prescriptive right; but I shall not pursue this topic further, though it may have a very definite bearing upon the question ...

— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher

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