• Expel

    Full definition of expel

    Verb

    1. To eject or erupt.
    2. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
      • Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xi:But to the ground the idle quarrell fell:
        Then he another and another did expell.
    3. To remove from membership.
      • 2011, December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
    4. To deport.

    Antonyms

    Related terms

    © Wiktionary