Associations to the word «Expel»

Wiktionary

EXPEL, verb. To eject or erupt.
EXPEL, verb. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
EXPEL, verb. To remove from membership.
EXPEL, verb. To deport.

Dictionary definition

EXPEL, verb. Force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country".
EXPEL, verb. Remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds".
EXPEL, verb. Cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves".
EXPEL, verb. Eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope