Dictionary Entry
expel
expel is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
- 2transitive verb
To drive away from one's country; to banish.
- 3transitive verb
To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
- 4transitive verb
To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
- 5transitive verb
To discharge; to shoot.
- 6verb
eliminate (a substance)
"combustion products are exhausted in the engine"
"the plant releases a gas"
- 7verb
cause to flee
"rout out the fighters from their caves"
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- 8verb
remove from a position or office
"The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"
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- 9verb
force to leave or move out
"He was expelled from his native country"
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