All 6 Uses
expel
in
Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- Then one day they expelled all the foreign Jews from Sighet.
p. 6.1 *expelled = forced out
- You're going to be expelled from here tomorrow with your whole family, and all the rest of the Jews.
p. 15.1
- They had been expelled.†
p. 20.2
- The Boche would not have time to expel us, they were saying … as far as those who had already been deported were concerned it was too bad; no more could be done.
p. 20.6expel = force out
- Saturday, the day of rest, was chosen for our expulsion.
p. 21.9expulsion = the act of forcing out
- around five o'clock in the morning, we were expelled from the barrack.†
p. 36.6expelled = forced out
Definitions:
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(1)
(expel) force outespecially in 2 primary senses:
- kicking someone out of an organization -- such as a school or country
- squeezing something to eliminate a liquid or gas
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)