EXPEL', L. expello ex and pello, to drive from the L. participle.
1. To drive or force out from any inclosed place as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows. The word is applicable to any force, physical or moral.
2. To drive out to force to leave as, to expel the inhabitants of a country to expel wild beasts from a forest.
3. To eject to throw out.
4. To banish to exile.
5. To reject to refuse. Little used.
And would you not poor fellowship expel?
6. To exclude to keep out or off.
7. In college government, to command to leave to dissolve the connection of a student to interdict him from further connection.
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