EXPELLED

EXPEL

exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release

(verb) eliminate (a substance); “combustion products are exhausted in the engine”; “the plant releases a gas”

rout, rout out, expel

(verb) cause to flee; “rout out the fighters from their caves”

oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel

(verb) remove from a position or office; “The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds”

expel, throw out, kick out

(verb) force to leave or move out; “He was expelled from his native country”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

expelled

simple past tense and past participle of expel

Source: Wiktionary

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EXPEL

Ex*pel", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expelled, p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.] Etym: [L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See Pulse a beat.]

1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.

2. To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.

3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.

5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. .

Syn.

– To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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