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EXPELLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
Example:
the discharge of pus
Synonyms:
discharge; emission; expelling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("expelling" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expelling"):
ejaculation (the discharge of semen in males)
elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)
catamenia; flow; menses; menstruation; menstruum; period (the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause)
Derivation:
expel (eliminate (a substance))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb expel
