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expulsion

/ɪkspˈʌlʃʌn/noun3 syllables

Expulsion means: the act of forcing out someone or something.

Synonyms for expulsion6

noun, as in the act of forcing out someone or something

ejection, exclusion, riddance

noun, as in the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

projection, ejection, forcing out

noun, as in squeezing out by applying pressure

extrusion

What does expulsion mean?3

noun

1

the act of forcing out someone or something“the ejection of troublemakers by the police”

2

the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

3

squeezing out by applying pressure“an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with expulsion?2

three syllables

propulsioncompulsion
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Expulsion in a sentence

  • His expulsion from university was occasioned by his academic misconduct.Objectivesea
  • I can see how kicking a teacher could lead to detention, or even expulsion, but not juvenile detention.LimeGreenTeknii
  • What is to be the fate of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya after their expulsion from Myanmar?frpzzd

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of expulsion

as a noun

plural
expulsions