EXPEL


Meaning of EXPEL in English

(~s, ~ling, ~led)

1.

If someone is ~led 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 ~led for cheating.

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

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

2.

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

An American academic was ~led from the country yesterday...

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

VERB: be V-ed, V n

3.

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

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

VERB: V n

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