expel

verb
/ɪkˈspɛl/

Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin expellere, from ex- (“out”) + pellere (“to drive”).

  1. derived from expellere

Definitions

  1. To eject.

  2. To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).

    • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.
  3. To remove from membership.

    • He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To deport.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at expel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA