expel

English

Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) +‎ pellere (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ex‧pel

Verb

expel (third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled)

1. To eject or erupt.
2. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.

3. (transitive) To remove from membership.

   Synonyms: drive away, drive out, force out

   He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

4. (transitive) To deport.

Synonyms

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• fordrive, turf out

Antonyms

• impel

Related terms

• expulsion

Translations

to eject

• Albanian: përzë (sq), përzân (gheg)
• Armenian: դուրս մղել (durs mġel), արտամղել (hy) (artamġel)
• Bulgarian: изхвърлям (bg) (izhvǎrljam)
• Catalan: expel·lir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排出 (zh) (páichū)

• Czech: vypudit
• Dutch: verdrijven (nl), verjagen (nl)
• Esperanto: elĵeti
• Finnish: poistaa (fi)
• French: expulser (fr), éjecter (fr)
• German: verjagen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (usdreiban)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐξωθέω (exōthéō)

• Hebrew: גירש (gerésh)
• Hungarian: kilő (hu)
• Irish: ruaig
• Italian: espellere (it)
• Japanese: 出す (ja) (だす, dasu)
• Latin: expellō, exigō
• Malayalam: പുറന്തള്ളുക (puṟantaḷḷuka)
• Maori: pana, pei, atiati
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Old English: gescufan
• Polish: wyrzucać (pl) impf, wyrzucić (pl) pf, wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: expelir (pt)
• Russian: выта́лкивать (ru) impf (vytálkivatʹ), вы́толкнуть (ru) pf (výtolknutʹ), выбра́сывать (ru) impf (vybrásyvatʹ), вы́бросить (ru) pf (výbrositʹ), изверга́ть (ru) impf (izvergátʹ), изве́ргнуть (ru) pf (izvérgnutʹ)
• Spanish: expulsar (es), expeler (es)
• Tocharian B: lut-
• Turkish: kovmak (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎗𐎌 (grš)

to remove from membership

• Arabic: طَرَدَ (ar) (ṭarada), نَفَى (nafā), أَخْرَجَ (ʔaḵraja)
• Armenian: հեռացնել (hy) (heṙacʻnel), վտարել (hy) (vtarel), վռնդել (hy) (vṙndel)
• Bulgarian: изключвам (bg) (izključvam)
• Catalan: expulsar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開除／开除 (zh) (kāichú)

• Czech: vyloučit (cs)
• Danish: bortvise (da)
• Dutch: royeren (nl)
• Finnish: erottaa (fi)
• French: expulser (fr)
• Galician: expulsar (gl), enxeitar
• German: ausweisen (de)
• Hungarian: kizár (hu), eltanácsol (hu), kicsap (hu)
• Italian: espellere (it)
• Japanese: 追い出す (ja) (おいだす, oidasu), 放り出す (ja) (ほうりだす, hōridasu)
• Korean: 내쫓다 (ko) (naejjotda), 몰아내다 (moranaeda)
• Malayalam: പുറത്താക്കുക (puṟattākkuka)
• Maori: tūwhiti, tūhiti, pei
• Middle English: forwerpen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Polish: wykluczać (pl) impf, wykluczyć (pl) pf, wydalać (pl) impf, wydalić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: expulsar (pt)
• Russian: исключа́ть (ru) impf (isključátʹ), исключи́ть (ru) pf (isključítʹ)
• Spanish: expulsar (es)
• Swedish: relegera (sv), avstänga (sv), bortvisa (sv)
• Turkish: çıkarmak (tr)

to deport

• Bulgarian: изгонвам (bg) (izgonvam)
• Catalan: deportar (ca), expulsar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驅逐出境／驱逐出境 (zh) (qūzhú chūjìng), 驅逐／驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú)

• Czech: vyhostit (cs)
• Dutch: deporteren (nl)
• Esperanto: forpeli (eo)
• French: déporter (fr), expulser (fr)
• German: abschieben (de), deportieren (de), verbannen (de)
• Hebrew: גירש (gerésh)
• Hungarian: kiutasít (hu), kitoloncol (hu)
• Japanese: 追放する (ja) (ついほうする, tsuihō-suru)
• Malayalam: പുറത്താക്കുക (puṟattākkuka)
• Maori: tūwhiti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bortvise

• Polish: wypędzać (pl) impf, wypędzić (pl) pf, wyganiać (pl) impf, wygonić (pl) pf, wygnać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: expulsar (pt), deportar (pt)
• Russian: депорти́ровать (ru) impf (deportírovatʹ), высыла́ть (ru) impf (vysylátʹ), вы́слать (ru) pf (výslatʹ)
• Sanskrit: नाशयति (sa) (nāśayati)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògair
• Turkish: afarozlamak, sınırdışı etmek, sürmek (tr)