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expeled

expeled is the simple past and past participle of expel.

Meaning of expel

Verb

expel (third-person singular simple present expels, present participle expelling, simple past and past participle expelled)

  1. (transitive) To eject.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
    • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To remove from membership.
    • He was expelled from school multiple times for disruptive behaviour.
  4. (transitive) To deport.

Forms of expeled

alternative formexpelled

Questions about expeled

What is expeled the simple past and past participle of?
Expeled is the simple past and past participle of expel.

Words near expeled in the dictionary

  1. expeditiousness
  2. expeditive
  3. expeditor
  4. expeditors
  5. expel
  6. expeled
  7. expelee
  8. expelees
  9. expeling
  10. expell
  11. expellable

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