expel

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

expel (third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled)

1. To eject or erupt.
2. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

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

3. (transitive) To remove from membership.

   Synonyms: drive away, drive out, force out

   He was expelled from school multiple times.

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     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. (transitive) To deport.

Synonyms

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• fordrive, turf out

Antonyms

• impel

Related terms

• expulsion

Translations

to eject

• Bulgarian: изхвърлям (bg) (izhvǎrljam)
• Catalan: expel·lir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排出 (zh) (páichū)

• Czech: vypudit
• Dutch: verdrijven (nl), verjagen (nl)
• Finnish: poistaa (fi)
• French: expulser (fr)
• German: verjagen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐξωθέω (exōthéō)

• Italian: espellere (it)
• Japanese: 出す (ja) (だす, dasu)
• Maori: pana, pei, atiati
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Polish: wyrzucać (pl) impf, wyrzucić (pl) pf, wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić pf
• Portuguese: expelir (pt)
• Russian: выта́лкивать (ru) impf (vytálkivatʹ), вы́толкнуть (ru) pf (výtolknutʹ), выбра́сывать (ru) impf (vybrásyvatʹ), вы́бросить (ru) pf (výbrositʹ), изверга́ть (ru) impf (izvergátʹ), изве́ргнуть (ru) pf (izvérgnutʹ)
• Spanish: expulsar (es), expeler (es)
• Turkish: kovmak (tr)

to remove from membership

• Bulgarian: изключвам (bg) (izključvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開除 (zh), 开除 (zh) (kāichú)

• Czech: vyloučit (cs)
• Dutch: royeren (nl)
• Finnish: erottaa (fi)
• French: expulser (fr)
• German: ausweisen (de)
• Hungarian: kizár (hu)
• Italian: espellere (it)

• Japanese: 追い出す (おいだす, oidasu), 放り出す (ほうりだす, hōridasu)
• Maori: tūwhiti, tūhiti, pei
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Polish: wykluczać (pl) impf, wykluczyć (pl) pf, wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić pf
• Portuguese: expulsar (pt)
• Russian: исключа́ть (ru) impf (isključátʹ), исключи́ть (ru) pf (isključítʹ)
• Spanish: expulsar (es)
• Turkish: çıkarmak (tr)

to deport

• Bulgarian: изгонвам (bg) (izgonvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐出境 (zh), 驱逐出境 (zh) (qūzhú chūjìng), 驅逐 (zh), 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú)

• Czech: vyhostit (cs)
• Dutch: deporteren (nl)
• Esperanto: forpeli (eo)
• French: déporter (fr), expulser (fr)
• German: abschieben (de), deportieren (de), verbannen (de)
• Japanese: 追放する (ja) (ついほうする, tsuihō-suru)

• Maori: tūwhiti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Polish: wypędzać impf, wypędzić (pl) pf, wyganiać impf, wygonić (pl) pf, wygnać pf
• Russian: депорти́ровать (ru) impf (deportírovatʹ), высыла́ть (ru) impf (vysylátʹ), вы́слать (ru) pf (výslatʹ)
• Sanskrit: नाशयति (sa) (nāśayati)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògair
• Turkish: afarozlamak, sınırdışı etmek, sürmek (tr)