(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If someone or something is ~ed from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
I was ~ed to the small bedroom upstairs...
They tried to ~ him from politics.
= expel
VERB: be V-ed from/to n, V n from/to n
2.
If you ~ something unpleasant, you get rid of it.
...a public investment programme intended to ~ the recession.
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ the thought of something, you stop thinking about it.
He has now ~ed all thoughts of retirement...
The past few days had been ~ed from his mind.
VERB: V n, be V-ed from/to n