what does expulsion mean?
EXPULSION as NOUN
- Meaning
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
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Hypernyms(s) expulsion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- the act of forcing out someone or something
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- the ejection of troublemakers by the police
- the child’’s expulsion from school
Hypernyms(s) expulsion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- squeezing out by applying pressure
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- an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube
- the expulsion of pus from the pimple
Hypernyms(s) expulsion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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