(from sth)
1 to officially make sb leave a school or an organization:
She was expelled from school at 15. * Olympic athletes expelled for drug-taking
2 to force sb to leave a country:
Foreign journalists are being expelled. * Thousands of Jews had been expelled from the city.
3 (technical) to force air or water out of a part of the body or from a container:
to expel air from the lungs
seealsoEXPULSION
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