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# expelling

«expelling» in Mova's school dictionary: **officially making them leave a school, club or country…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb -ing form of expel (expel, expels, expelled, expelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Expelling someone is officially making them leave a school, club or country because of bad behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#m1)

2) Expelling something is forcing it out, such as air from the lungs or gas from an engine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school life, expelling a pupil is the most serious punishment, worse than being suspended or excluded for a few days. In science, the lungs are expelling air when you breathe out; a volcano is expelling lava and ash. In history, rulers expelled groups of people from countries. Phrases: «expelling air», «expelling a pupil», «expelling from the country».

### examples

- The school is expelling him for bullying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x1)
- When you breathe out, you are expelling air from your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x2)
- The volcano was expelling ash for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x3)
- A rocket moves by expelling hot gas backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x4)
- The club is expelling members who cheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x5)
- Whales blow by expelling air through their blowholes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/#x6)

### note

Spelling: double l in expelled and expelling (expel → expelling). Noun: expulsion. In the UK, «excluded» is the official school word; «expelled» is common in speech.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expelling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expelling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.