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third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled
To eject or erupt. examples
(obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.). quotations
But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(transitive) To remove from membership. quotations examples
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.
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian
(transitive) To deport. examples