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EXPULSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
Synonyms:
ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):
actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expulsion"):
belch; belching; burp; burping; eructation (a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth)
belching (the forceful expulsion of something from inside)
coughing up (the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing)
expectoration; spit; spitting (the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva))
disgorgement; emesis; puking; regurgitation; vomit; vomiting (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)
Derivation:
expel (eliminate (a substance))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of forcing out someone or something
Example:
the child's expulsion from school
Synonyms:
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expulsion"):
defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)
deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)
barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)
Derivation:
expel (remove from a position or office)
expel (force to leave or move out)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Squeezing out by applying pressure
Example:
the expulsion of pus from the pimple
Synonyms:
expulsion; extrusion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):
squeeze; squeezing (the act of gripping and pressing firmly)
Context examples:
They are considered to be sites of uptake of materials into the cell, expulsion of materials from the cell, or sites of addition or removal of cell (unit) membrane to or from the cell surface.
(Caveola, NCI Thesaurus)
Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
