Expel /(?)/

Ex·pel

Expel

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Expelled

  1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.
    Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?
    — Judg. xi. 7.
  2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
    Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.
    He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.
    — Josh. xxiii. 5.
  3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
  4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
  5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]
    Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.