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expeling

expeling is the present participle and gerund 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 expeling

alternative formexpelling

Questions about expeling

What is expeling the present participle and gerund of?
Expeling is the present participle and gerund of expel.

Words near expeling in the dictionary

  1. expeditors
  2. expel
  3. expeled
  4. expelee
  5. expelees
  6. expeling
  7. expell
  8. expellable
  9. expellant
  10. expellants
  11. expelled

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