According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
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
Verb
expelled
simple past tense and past participle of expel
Source: Wiktionary
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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