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

The sticking point in debate negotiations was over whether Marshall qualified under a provision in Nexstar’s national debate participation criteria that excludes candidates who didn’t raise at least 25% of their campaign funds from in-state donors.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
That job will include all entertainment and sports bookings at the venues (excluding the New York Rangers and New York Knicks), as well as live bookings at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of exclude

Verb

When the government expanded the park in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hundreds of villagers—including Mgesi's family—were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.

— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
Twenty-six percent of women who were pregnant or postpartum when they were illegally evicted lacked a lease, and 21% of all interview participants who were illegally evicted had a month-to-month tenancy.

— Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of evict

Verb

Thankfully, the emergency abort escape system ejected their Soyuz space capsule from the top of the rocket just two seconds before the fire caused the explosion.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
The crash triggered an emergency response near Morro Bay, where the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of eject

Verb

Lamashtu said something the patriarch couldn’t abide, and for that she was cast out of polite divine society forever and sent to make chaos among mortals.

— Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Some hoped that labels would confront the culture of misogyny in an ecosystem that critics have long said has gone unchecked and cast out predators among their ranks.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of cast out

Verb

Kean won in 2022 by unseating Democrat Tom Malinowski, who had ousted Republican Leonard Lance in 2018.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Divorced and alone, he has also been ousted from the LAPD following a botched raid that ended with the death of one of his young squad members.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026