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expulsion
noun
1 expulsion
The act of forcing out someone or something:
— The child's expulsion from school.
synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance.
Roget 55:
exclusion,
nonadmission,
omission,
exception,
rejection,
repudiation;
exile
etc.
(seclusion)
893;
noninclusion†,
preclusion,
prohibition.
separation,
segregation,
seposition†,
elimination,
expulsion;
cofferdam.
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Roget 972:
punishment,
punition†;
chastisement,
chastening;
correction,
castigation.
discipline,
infliction,
trial;
judgment;
penalty
etc.
974;
retribution;
thunderbolt,
Nemesis;
requital
etc.
(reward)
973;
penology;
retributive justice.
lash,
scaffold
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
imprisonment
etc.
(restraint)
751;
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion,
exile,
involuntary exile,
ostracism;
penal servitude,
hard labor;
galleys
etc.
975;
beating
etc.
v.;
flagellation,
fustigation†,
gantlet,
strappado†,
estrapade†,
bastinado,
argumentum baculinum [Lat.],
stick law,
rap on the knuckles,
box on the ear;
blow
etc.
(impulse)
276;
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel;
slap,
slap in the face;
wipe,
douse;
coup de grace;
torture,
rack;
picket,
picketing;
dragonnade†.
capital punishment;
execution;
lethal injection;
the gas chamber;
hanging
etc.
v.;
electrocution,
rail-riding,
scarpines†;
decapitation,
decollation†;
garrotte,
garrotto [It];
crucifixion,
impalement;
firing squad;
martyrdom;
auto-da-fe [Fr.];
noyade†;
happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment]
hara-kiri,
seppuku [Jap.];
drinking the hemlock.
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Dutch: uitbanning
Polish: wygonienie, wypędzenie, wygnanie
2 expulsion
Squeezing out by applying pressure:
— The expulsion of pus from the pimple.
synonym: extrusion.
Roget 297:
ejection,
emission,
effusion,
rejection,
expulsion,
exportation,
eviction,
extrusion,
trajection†;
discharge.
emesis,
vomiting,
vomition†.
egestion†,
evacuation;
ructation†,
eructation;
bloodletting,
venesection [Med.],
phlebotomy,
paracentesis†;
expuition,
exspuition;
tapping,
drainage;
clearance,
clearage†.
deportation;
banishment
etc.
(punishment )
972;
rouge's march;
relegation,
extradition;
dislodgment.
bouncer [U.S.],
chucker-out [Slang].
[material vomited]
vomit,
vomitus [Med.],
puke,
barf [Coll.].
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Polish: ekstruzja, wyciskanie
3 expulsion
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.
synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection.
Dutch: uitwijzing, verwijdering, wegjaging, verdrijving, uitdrijving, uitzetting, verbanning
Moby thesaurus: banishment, blowout, booting out, cashiering, clearance, communication, conduction, contagion, convection, deconsecration, defenestration, defrocking, delivery, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, detachment, dethronement, detrusion, diapedesis, diffusion, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discharge, discrownment, disenthronement, disgorgement, disjunction, dismissal, displacement, disposal, disposition, dissemination, ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emission, eradication, eructation, eruption, eviction, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expelling, export, exportation, extradition, extravasation, extrusion, firing, forced resignation, impeachment, import, importation, interchange, jet, jettison, kicking downstairs, kicking upstairs, liquidation, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, obtrusion, osmosis, ostracism, ouster, ousting, outburst, outlawing, outlawry, outpour, overthrow, overthrowal, passage, passing over, pensioning off, perfusion, purge, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, retirement, riddance, sacking, severance, spout, spread, spreading, spurt, squirt, superannuation, suspension, the boot, the bounce, the sack, throwing out, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, withdrawal ... show more.
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