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expel

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
expel/ɪkˈspel/

▶verb (expels, expelling, expelled)

1 force or drive out.

2 officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization.

– derivatives
expellable adjective,
expellee noun,
expeller noun.

– origin ME: from L. expellere, from ex- ‘out’ + pellere ‘to drive’.

'expel' also found in these Oxford entries:

belch - blow - breathe - cough - deport - disbar - drum - egg-bound - enema - evict - exclude - excrete - exhaust - exile - expectorate - expulsion - kick - oust - out - read - send - spew - throw - turn - vent - worm

Forum discussions with the word(s) "expel" in the title:

expel from school?
expel me from home
expel uncertainty
to expel/to send out

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