EXPELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expelling mean? 

• EXPELLING (noun)
  The noun EXPELLING has 1 sense:

1. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

  Familiarity information: EXPELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

discharge; emission; expelling

Context example:

the discharge of pus

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

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

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

ejaculation (the discharge of semen in males)

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding (the bodily process of discharging waste matter)

catamenia; flow; menses; menstruation; menstruum; period (the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause)

Derivation:

expel (eliminate (a substance))

 Context examples 

Expelling the contents of the stomach and the sensations associated with it.

(Nausea and Vomiting, NCI Thesaurus)

Expelling modified air from the lungs; breathing out.

(Expiration, NCI Thesaurus)

When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun’s lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

This energy inhibits star formation by heating the gas or expelling it from the galaxy.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

According to the researchers, one likely function of stems would be to enable the greater dispersion of offspring, which rangeomorphs produced by expelling small propagules.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)