expel
Verb
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Force to leave or move out (synset 202507387)
"He was expelled from his native country"is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sensesubtypes:
- boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out, turn out - put out or expel from a place
- deport, exile, expatriate - expel from a country
- debar, suspend - bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- deliver, deport, extradite - hand over to the authorities of another country
- banish, bar, relegate - expel, as if by official decree
- ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun - expel from a community or group
- ban, banish - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
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Remove from a position or office (synset 202406951)
"The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"is a type of: remove - remove from a position or an officesubtypes:
- excommunicate - oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
- depose, force out - force to leave (an office)
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Cause to flee (synset 201111362)
"rout out the fighters from their caves"
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Eliminate (a substance) (synset 200104622)
"combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"subtypes:
- cough out, cough up, expectorate, spit out, spit up - discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
- blow - free of obstruction by blowing air through
- ejaculate - eject semen
- abort - terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- ovulate - produce and discharge eggs
- egest, eliminate, excrete, pass - eliminate from the body
- bleed, hemorrhage, shed blood - lose blood from one's body
- eruct, spew, spew out - eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical
- fester, maturate, suppurate - ripen and generate pus
- breathe, emit, pass off - expel (gases or odors)
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