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Expelled vs Exile - What's the difference?

expelled | exile |

As verbs the difference between expelled and exile

is that expelled is (expel) while exile is .

As a noun exile is

exile (someone in exile).

As an adjective exile is

exiled, in exile.

expelled

English

Alternative forms

*expeled (US )

Verb

(head)
  • (expel)

    • expel

    English

    Verb

  • To eject or erupt.
  • (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • * , II.xi:
    • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
  • To remove from membership.
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    • , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, work=Guardian citation , page=, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
  • To deport.

    • Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), turf out

    Antonyms

    * impel

    Related terms

    * expulsion

    exile

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
    • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

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