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单词 expel
释义 ex·pel
\ikˈspel, ek-\ transitive verb
(expelled ; expelled ; expelling ; expels)
Etymology: Middle English expellen, from Latin expellere, from ex- ex- (I) + pellere to drive — more at felt
1. : to force out from or as if from a receptacle : drive out : cast out : eject, dislodge
 < the gigantic explosion … expelled some four and a half cubic miles of pumice — Howel Williams >
 < filled her lungs with a long inhalation and expelled the smoke — B.A.Williams >
 < superstitions become lodged in our mental constitutions and sometimes are modified or expelled only with the greatest difficulty — F.A.Geldard >
2. : to drive away from a place or country : compel to leave
 < citizens organized vigilante committees and expelled or subdued the undesirables — American Guide Series: Tennessee >
specifically : deport
 < an alien within a deportable class had to be expelledHarvard Law Review >
3. : to cut off from membership in or the privileges of an institution or society
 < the boy attended school but was expelled for fighting with his teacher — A.F.Harlow >
4. obsolete : to dismiss from attention or consideration : refuse
 < would you not poor fellowship expel, myself would offer you to accompany — Edmund Spenser >
5. obsolete : to keep out : exclude
 < O, that that earth … should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw — Shakespeare >
6. obsolete : discharge, shoot
 < was not slow to expel the shaft from her contracted bow — John Dryden >
Synonyms: see eject
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