expel
/ɪkˈspel/ verb [T] (present participle expelling, past tense and past participle expelled)Definition
MAKE SOMEONE LEAVE › to make someone leave a school, organization, or country because of their behaviour: [often passive] He was expelled from school for hitting another student.
FORCE SOMETHING OUT formal › to force air, gas, or liquid out of something: Slowly expel all the air from your lungs.
(Definition of expel verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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