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Expel

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

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Manner of action 36

Abort 76% connected

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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Ban 76% connected

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

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Banish 76% connected

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Bar 76% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Blackball 76% connected

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

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Bleed 76% connected

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Breathe 76% connected

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

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Debar 76% connected

To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Depose 76% connected

To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.

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Egest 76% connected

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin,…

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Ejaculate 76% connected

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Eruct 76% connected

Alt. of Eructate

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Exclude 76% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

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Excommunicate 76% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Excrete 76% connected

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

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Exile 76% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Expatriate 76% connected

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

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Expectorate 76% connected

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

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Extradite 76% connected

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

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Fester 76% connected

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Maturate 76% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Ostracize 76% connected

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

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Ovulate 76% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Relegate 76% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Shun 76% connected

To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.

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Spew 76% connected

To eject from the stomach; to vomit.

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Suppurate 76% connected

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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Suspend 76% connected

To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

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Broader term 7

Defeat 76% connected

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Eliminate 76% connected

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Obviate 76% connected

To meet in the way.

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Overcome 76% connected

of Overcome

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Derivationally related 2

Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Expulsion 74% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Synonym 6

Discharge 92% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Eject 92% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exhaust 92% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Oust 92% connected

See Oast.

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Release 92% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Rout 92% connected

To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

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