EXPULSE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

expulse

verb

Definition of expulse

as in to eliminate

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Recent Examples of expulse In this case, shed doesn’t mean put in the tool shed but rather release or expulse the live virus into your surroundings. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 May 2021

Recent Examples of Synonyms for expulse

Verb

Grant starts that particular groundswell early, after failing to sing an impressively low note and being eliminated in Round 1.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
To eliminate this obstacle, the ANU research team designed a fluorescent assay named PETra.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of eliminate

Verb

But Crime Stoppers said its funding has run out, and if volunteers or money do not come in, Rutherford said after 40 years, the non-profit won't be able to continue operating.

— Jermont Terry, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
The trust fund the program relies on to help pay retirement benefits may run out in the fourth quarter of 2032, when 78% of benefits would be payable, Social Security's trustees projected in an annual report released in June.

— Lorie Konish, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of run out

Verb

The piece questions the company's focus on alternative earnings metrics excluding amortization and its squishy customer retention.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
That figure jumped after Friday's inflation report showed that prices remain stubbornly high and core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy, picked up in August from the previous month.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of exclude

Verb

One of the attractions of self-storage as a business is that evicting stuff is easier than evicting people.

— David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Teeny, along with several other animals, was surrendered to the Arizona Humane Society after their own was sadly evicted from their residence.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of evict

Verb

Those include bringing the Kurdish peshmerga security forces in northern Iraq under control of the central government’s military and expelling Iranian Kurdish dissident groups and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, that have bases in the region.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Last season ended when the club was expelled from the EFL Championship playoffs, where teams earn promotion to the Premier League, after being found guilty of spying on opponents.

— Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of expel

Verb

One passenger was fully ejected from the bus and another was partially ejected, police said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
The pilot ejected before the fighter went down near County Road 633 and Blair Townhall Road in Grand Traverse County.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of eject

Verb

These will show whether the vote was a watershed moment in the demise of an anti-fascist consensus dating back to World War II, or the latest in a series of elections worldwide in which frustrated voters simply cast out incumbents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
These are sons and daughters and children cast out, disappeared from their communities and forced to make a life in the shadows of society.

— Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of cast out

Verb

The parliament, or Bundestag, can oust Merz only through what is known as a constructive vote of no confidence.

— Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Then Carl Icahn ran a proxy contest in the middle of all this that ousted the chairman in 2023 and led to CEO Francis deSouza resigning shortly after.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026