expelling

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Idioms, Wikipedia.

Related to expelling: equipping

ex·pel

(ĭk-spĕl′)

tr.v. ex·pelled, ex·pel·ling, ex·pels

1. To force or drive out: expel an invader.

2. To discharge from or as if from a receptacle: expelled a sigh of relief.

3. To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave: expelled the student from college for cheating.

[Middle English expellen, from Latin expellere : ex-, ex- + pellere, to drive; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

ex·pel′la·ble adj.

ex·pel′ler n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

expelling - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus"

discharge, emission

bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity - an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity"

excreting, excretion, voiding, elimination, evacuation - the bodily process of discharging waste matter

menses, menstruation, catamenia, menstruum, period, flow - the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle

References in periodicals archive ?

A statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine took provocative actions by expelling officials in the Russian Consulate in Lviv on May.

Russia declares Ukrainian diplomat persona non grata in tit-for-tat

Ruto accused Raila of political deceit, trying to create a rift in Jubilee Party and arbitrarily expelling members from ODM.

Jumwa doesn't need your permission to support me - Ruto tells off Raila

KARACHI -- Former senior leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Farooq Sattar has challenged the party decision of expelling him from the party, in the Sindh High Court (SHC).

Farooq Sattar moves SHC against his expulsion from party

News of Expelling Turkish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia is Completely Baseless, Official Source at the Foreign Ministry reported.

Saudi denies report of Turkish ambassador's expulsion

Mr Varadkar added: "The Government will not be expelling the ambassador at this time.

Diplomat won't be kicked out

On the reasons for expelling the other four, he said it is for the disruption of the party's unity through their support for Entulu.

PRS expels deputy president, four others

The UK began the actions first, expelling 23 diplomats on March 14 in retaliation for the attack on Skripal and his daughter.

US And Russia Are Caught In A Downward Spiral

A ministry statement Friday said the ambassadors were from 23 of the countries that are expelling Russians in connection with the poisoning in Britain of a former Russian double agent and his daughter.

Russia ramps up diplomatic expulsions, hauls in ambassadors for meetings

For violation of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations and in solidarity with the UK over the so-called Salisbury attack, the Baltics joined London, expelling a number of Russian diplomats from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

Baltic States expel Russian diplomats

UNITED STATES -- Expelling 60 Russians, including 12 intelligence officers from Russia's mission to U.N.

FACTBOX: Diplomatic moves against Russia after nerve gas attack

Summary: Canberra [Australia], Mar 27 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday announced that he would be expelling two Russian diplomats, in response to the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the United Kingdom.

Australia to expel 2 Russian diplomats over spy nerve attack

CITE

Site: Follow: Share:

Open / Close