expulsion

/ɛkˈspʌlʒɪn/

/ɛkˈspʌlʃɪn/

Other forms: expulsions

Don't ever make a joke about a bomb on an airplane, if you don't want to risk expulsion. Expulsion is being kicked out of something, like a club, a school, or an airplane.

If a Girl Scout ate all the cookies she'd already sold, she might face expulsion from her Girl Scout troop, and an unruly high school student who threatens to hit a teacher risks expulsion from school. Historically, many religious and minority groups faced expulsion from countries where their beliefs weren't tolerated. In fact, the Latin root word of expulsion is expellere, "to drive out."

Definitions of expulsion

1. noun

   the act of forcing out someone or something
   “the child's expulsion from school”

   synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance

   types:

   defenestration

   the act of throwing someone or something out of a window

   deportation

   the expulsion of a non-citizen from a country

   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

   deposition, dethronement

   the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office

   type of:

   banishment, proscription

   rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
2. noun

   the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
   synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection

   types:

   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, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting

   the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth

   rumination

   regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding

   haematemesis, hematemesis

   vomiting blood

   hyperemesis

   severe and excessive vomiting

   type of:

   actuation, propulsion

   the act of propelling
3. noun

   squeezing out by applying pressure
   “the expulsion of pus from the pimple”

   synonyms: extrusion

   type of:

   squeeze, squeezing

   the act of gripping and pressing firmly