单词 | expulsion |
释义 | expulsion (once / 1422 pages) n Don't ever make a joke about a bomb on an airplane, if you don't want to risk expulsion. Expulsion is being kicked out of something, like a club, a school, or an airplane. If a Girl Scout ate all the cookies she'd already sold, she might face expulsion from her Girl Scout troop, and an unruly high school student who threatens to hit a teacher risks expulsion from school. Historically, many religious and minority groups faced expulsion from countries where their beliefs weren't tolerated. In fact, the Latin root word of expulsion is expellere, "to drive out." WORD FAMILYexpulsion: expulsions+/expel: expelled, expelling, expels, expulsion USAGE EXAMPLESMr Obama ordered the expulsion in response to alleged hacking of the US Democratic Party and Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) On Thursday, Obama ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomatic personnel and the closure of estates in Maryland and New York used by embassy staff. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) On Long Island, meanwhile, the expulsions were being treated largely as a passing dispute. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the act of forcing out someone or something the child's expulsion from school Syn|Hypo|Hyper ejection, exclusion, riddance defenestration the act of throwing someone or something out of a window deportationthe expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien ostracismthe act of excluding someone from society by general consent barring, blackballthe act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto ouster, oustingthe act of ejecting someone or forcing them out deposition, dethronementthe act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office banishment, proscription rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone 2n the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting Syn|Hypo|Hyper ejection, forcing out, projection belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth belchingthe forceful expulsion of something from inside coughing upthe act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing expectoration, spit, spittingthe act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomitingthe reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth ruminationregurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding haematemesis, hematemesisvomiting blood hyperemesissevere and excessive vomiting actuation, propulsion the act of propelling 3n squeezing out by applying pressure the expulsion of pus from the pimple Syn|Hyper extrusion squeeze, squeezing the act of gripping and pressing firmly |
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