EXPELS Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

expels

verb

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present tense third-person singular of expel

as in ejects

to drive or force out animal lover though I am, I was determined to expel the uninvited mouse from my room

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as in radiates

to throw or give off something in a wastebasket was expelling a foul odor

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as in erupts

to violently throw out or off (something from within) ringing and flashing madly, the slot machine expelled a bucketful of quarters

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as in exhales

to let or force out of the lungs asked the patient to expel a deep breath

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Recent Examples of expels This is the palette of the machine-made, that which is inhuman, and Duchamp would drive the point home in Coffee Mill (1911), a tiny painting of a grinder that expels a cascade of brown beans. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 The team found the center of M82 expels the equivalent of seven suns each year. —

Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2026 Gut motility, the process by which the digestive system processes food and expels stool, tends to slow with aging. —

Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2026 One child had gone to the beach, and the other child had been exposed to a raccoon latrine, which is an area where a raccoon routinely expels its waste. —

Amy Corral, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 Solar particle party During a coronal mass ejection, the sun expels billions of tons of material, some of which travels toward our planet. —

Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025 The Heat would avoid that payment, and subsequent regular payments, only if Silver voids his contract and expels him from the league. —

Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025 Instead, Carrie’s holiday is filled with a revolving door of haughty art dealers and Gen Z queerdos, one of whom clogs the toilet and expels a sea of brown that Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is forced to clean up. —

Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025 The tree of life does not reappear until the end of the Eden story, when God expels Adam and Eve to prevent them from eating it. —

Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 20 June 2023

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At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Results published in Nature show that cells use bioelectricity to coordinate a complex collective behavior called extrusion, a vital process that ejects sick or struggling individual cells from tissue to maintain health and keep growth in check.

— Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2026