Dictionary entry details
• EXPEL (verb)
Meaning:
Force to leave or move out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
expel; kick out; throw out
Context example:
He was expelled from his native country
Hypernyms (to "expel" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expel"):
ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun (expel from a community or group)
banish; bar; relegate (expel, as if by official decree)
deliver; deport; extradite (hand over to the authorities of another country)
debar; suspend (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)
deport; exile; expatriate (expel from a country)
ban; banish (ban from a place of residence, as for punishment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
eject; turf out; boot out; chuck out; expel; throw out; kick out; exclude; turn out
Context example:
The child was expelled from the classroom
Hypernyms (to "expel" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expel"):
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
bump; dislodge; displace (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
bounce (eject from the premises)
show the door (ask to leave)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Remove from a position or office
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
boot out; drum out; oust; kick out; expel; throw out
Context example:
The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
Hypernyms (to "expel" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expel"):
excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)
depose; force out (force to leave (an office))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Cause to flee
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
rout; rout out; expel
Context example:
rout out the fighters from their caves
Hypernyms (to "expel" is one way to...):
defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Eliminate (substances) from the body
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
eject; discharge; release; expel
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expel"):
cough out; cough up; expectorate; spit out; spit up (discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth)
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
fester; maturate; suppurate (ripen and generate pus)
eruct; spew; spew out (eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical)
bleed; hemorrhage; shed blood (lose blood from one's body)
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)
ovulate (produce and discharge eggs)
abort (terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion)
ejaculate (eject semen)
blow (free of obstruction by blowing air through)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
