Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To drive out; expel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To drive out; to expel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To expel

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Examples

  • When you'll start breathing again, your first "expulse" wil just have more CO2 than the regular ones!

    Planet Identity 2009

  • ASEAN should just stop threatening to expulse Myanmar from the Association unless she is back to follow the democratic road map and make the threat real with an expulsion.

    What responsibility do we bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from serving in armed conflict? 2008

  • [369] Father Forest hath laboured divers manner of ways to expulse Father

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • It also works to activate cell in vivo, eliminate the long-term-silting harm toxin with unique slimming, and expulse toxin and adjusting fat in vivo effects.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Weight Loss 2010

  • It also works to activate cell in vivo, eliminate the long-term-silting harm toxin with unique slimming, and expulse toxin and adjusting fat in vivo effects.

    Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Weight Loss 2010

  • And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on?

    Democracy Now! 2010

  • And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on?

    Democracy Now! 2010

  • That's why-therefore, our protest in the face of this discrimination to expulse immigrants, when we have never kicked immigrants out, we've never sent them home -

    Democracy Now! 2010

  • Si llega por mi culpa a tu morada, si la pobreza expulsa tus zapatos dorados, que no expulse tu risa que es el pan de mi vida.

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • One of the immediate reactions by Al Bashir has been to expulse more than 10 foreign aid groups, including CARE, Médecins sans Frontières, Oxfam, and Save the Children.

    The Moderate Voice 2009

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