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expel

verb

  1. to force or drive out, to discharge from
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛl/

verb

Etymology: Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).

  1. To eject.
  2. To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).

    But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.

  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.

  4. To deport.