1Officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization.

1. 1.1 Force (someone) to leave a place.
   eight diplomats were expelled from Norway for espionage

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He has been based here since he was expelled from Sudan, and forbidden entry to his homeland of Saudi Arabia.
   • The one-time Libyan envoy to London, he was expelled from Britain in 1980 for publicly threatening to murder dissidents.
   • But he was then expelled from the country instead of being taken to a Portuguese prison to begin his sentence.
   • I haven't had any news of her since I was expelled from Australia.
   • After he won the presidency in 1990, the opposition joined with the Army to overthrow him and expel him from the country.
   • He would like to deport and expel people who are French, people who would otherwise vote in elections.
   • The organisation has expelled three members following an internal investigation over their role in the killing and cover-up.
   • This champion of samurai who would overthrow the Shogunate and expel the barbarians became the devoted follower of the elite shogunal official.
   • Security forces had allied with extreme loyalists to expel families from their homes.
   • Only last month the south Asian neighbours expelled each other's diplomats over accusations of spying.
   • Long a supporter of the Sudeten Germans, his wife's own family was expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945.
   • When one family member is expelled, the entire family goes into exile.
   • If there is one thing we could do to give this, and other cities, a sensible future, it would be to banish, expel, deport, and forever exile this noxious device and all its associated poisons.
   • Russian forces expelled the older scientists and held the younger ones as prisoners of war.
   • A Mexican force soon expelled him, and his rangers burned the town of as they left.
   • Some 800,000 people were expelled and several hundreds of thousands internally displaced.
   • The country has expelled five diplomats following scrutiny of their activities.
   • That means the possibility of using the threat of force to force them to give up their weapons and expel the radical organization.
   • Eventually the king was forced to expel her from the country.
   • He and three other newspeople were expelled from Baghdad last week.

   Synonyms

   banish, exile, deport, evict, expatriate, dismiss, displace

   oust, drive out, throw out, cast out, purge, proscribe, outlaw

   in ancient Greece ostracize
2. 1.2 Force out (something), especially from the body.
   she expelled a shuddering breath

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A sponge filters out microscopic food by drawing water through tiny spores in its body wall and then expelling it through its top opening.
   • As with a foreign object, sometimes the body rejects a body piercing and expels it or causes it to migrate.
   • Acute diarrhea is an important defense mechanism that enables your body to expel foreign bacteria and parasites quickly.
   • Pamela took a deep breath, expelled it slowly, puffing her cheeks out.
   • Small but prolonged rises in sea temperature force coral colonies to expel their symbiotic, food-producing algae, a process known as bleaching.
   • When you take in those extra salts, your body will need to expel them as quickly as possible.
   • That my body wants to expel the dust of the past as quickly as it inhales it seems to me an entirely healthy mechanism.
   • After birth, the body expels the fluid and salt, and their blood pressure drops.
   • The chair's legs squeaked against the floor as she pushed it away and coughed, her body expelling the pill across to the far side of the table.
   • You know how wretched it is to eat something you shouldn't have and spend the next day and a half miserably expelling it from your body.
   • Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices.
   • A thrust compressing the abdomen just below the diaphragm forces air up from the lungs through the throat - expelling a foreign body from the choking victim.
   • Unless they are expelled from your body, they add to your weight.
   • So, once his races are over, his main priority will be to expel them from his body as fast and efficiently as possible.
   • Straightening, she took a deep breath before expelling it sharply.
   • Viruses in your throat or chest also stimulate your cough reflex, which helps your body expel the mucus and the virus, he says.
   • It turns out that some species of penguin can expel their feces with such force that it can fly 40 cm.
   • We could not breathe, either, for our lungs were much too busy expelling laughter from our bodies.
   • The immune system does this work, targeting and breaking down outworn or foreign materials and expelling them from the body.
   • Yoga helps your body reabsorb and expel gas by stimulating peristalsis, the muscle contractions that eliminate waste.

   Synonyms

   let out, discharge, eject, force out, issue, send forth

   excrete, evacuate, ejaculate, belch, disgorge, eliminate, void, spew out, spit out, vomit