EXPEL


Meaning of EXPEL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪkspel ]

( expels, expelling, expelled)

1.

If someone is expelled from a school or organization, they are officially told to leave because they have behaved badly.

More than five-thousand secondary school students have been expelled for cheating.

...a boy expelled from school for making death threats to his teacher.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed , V-ed

2.

If people are expelled from a place, they are made to leave it, often by force.

An American academic was expelled from the country yesterday...

They were told at first that they should simply expel the refugees.

VERB : be V-ed , V n

3.

To expel something means to force it out from a container or from your body.

As the lungs exhale this waste, gas is expelled into the atmosphere.

VERB : V n

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