What is another word for expels?

Pronunciation: [ɛkspˈɛlz] (IPA)

Expels is a verb that means forcing someone to leave a place or an organization, usually as a punishment. There are several synonyms for the word expels, including ejects, evicts, kicks out, dismisses, discharges, ousts, and banishes. These synonyms can be used to replace the word expels in a sentence depending on the context of the situation. For example, a teacher can expel a student for misconduct, or they could eject them from the class. Similarly, a landlord may evict a tenant for non-payment of rent or a boss may dismiss an employee for poor performance. In general, synonyms for expels tend to imply a process of removing someone or something from a particular location or situation.

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Usage examples for Expels

This expels the greater part of the molasses, and leaves a mass of yellow-brown crystals, the coloring being due to the molasses remaining.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
If it presents itself too often to his mind, he expels it disdainfully!
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
And you shall have joy, which pleasure expels.
"The Red Lily, v2"
Anatole France

Famous quotes with Expels

  • Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
    John Armstrong
  • But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
    Mark Twain
  • The state gives orders and coerces, religion teaches and persuades. The state prescribes , religion . The state has power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is and . The one abandons the disobedient and expels him; the other receives him in its bosom and seeks to instruct, or at least to console him.
    Moses Mendelssohn

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