expulsion
Noun
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The act of forcing out someone or something (synset 100207776)
"the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"is a type of: banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someonesubtypes:
- 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
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Squeezing out by applying pressure (synset 100359528)
"an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple"same as: extrusion
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The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting (synset 100117507)
is a type of: actuation, propulsion - the act of propellingsubtypes:
- 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
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