EXPULSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expulsion mean? 

• EXPULSION (noun)
  The noun EXPULSION has 3 senses:

1. the act of forcing out someone or something

2. squeezing out by applying pressure

3. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

  Familiarity information: EXPULSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPULSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of forcing out someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance

Context example:

the child's expulsion from school

Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expulsion"):

defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)

deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)

ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)

barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)

ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)

Derivation:

expel (remove from a position or office)

expel (force to leave or move out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Squeezing out by applying pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

expulsion; extrusion

Context example:

the expulsion of pus from the pimple

Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):

squeeze; squeezing (the act of gripping and pressing firmly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection

Hypernyms ("expulsion" is a kind of...):

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expulsion"):

belch; belching; burp; burping; eructation (a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth)

belching (the forceful expulsion of something from inside)

coughing up (the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing)

expectoration; spit; spitting (the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva))

disgorgement; emesis; puking; regurgitation; vomit; vomiting (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)

Derivation:

expel (eliminate (a substance))

 Context examples 

The expulsion of the placenta with presentation of the maternal rough side first, rather than the usual fetal side of the placenta.

(Placental Duncan Mechanism, NCI Thesaurus)

The separation of the placenta from the uterine wall during labor; it begins at the placental center and leads to an expulsion of the placenta after delivery of the baby.

(Placental Schultze Mechanism, NCI Thesaurus)

One that is abnormally prone to dilate in the second trimester of pregnancy, resulting in premature expulsion of the fetus.

(Incompetent Cervix, NCI Thesaurus)

In both cases, the enhanced aggregation made the bacteria more sensitive to contractions of the intestines, leading to increased expulsion from the gut and more than hundred-fold drops in the intestinal populations.

(Impacts of low-dose exposure to antibiotics unveiled in zebrafish gut, National Science Foundation)

As he pulled and tugged and wrenched, he kept exclaiming with every expulsion of breath, "Beasts!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Save in the Stranger’s Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Expulsion of all the products of conception following spontaneous, medical or operative pregnancy termination.

(Complete Abortion, NCI Thesaurus)

In a few hot and bitter words, he compared their false brother's exit to the expulsion of our first parents from the garden, and more than hinted that unless a reformation occurred some others of the community might find themselves in the same evil and perilous case.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sgr A* also impacts its surroundings through occasional outbursts from its vicinity that result in the expulsion of material away from the giant black hole, as shown in the later part of the movie.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)

First of all, as to your return to my house after your most justifiable expulsion—he protruded his beard, and stared at me as one who challenges and invites contradiction—after, as I say, your well-merited expulsion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)