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expulsions

 
Noun expulsion has 3 senses
  1. ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"
    --1 is a kind of banishment, proscription
    --1 has particulars:
     defenestration; deportation; ostracism; barring, blackball; ouster, ousting
    Derived forms: verb expel3, verb expel1, verb expel2
  2. extrusion, expulsion - squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple"
    --2 is a kind of squeeze, squeezing
  3. expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out - the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
    --3 is a kind of propulsion, actuation
    --3 has particulars:
     belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation; belching; coughing up; spit, spitting, expectoration; vomit, vomiting, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking
    Derived form: verb expel5
expropriate expropriated expropriation expugnable expule expulse expulsing expulsion expulsions expulsive expunction expund expunge expunge expunged expunging expurgate

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