Outcast vs Expelled - What's the difference?
outcast | expelled | Synonyms |
To cast out; to banish.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
* Longfellow
(expel)
To eject or erupt.
(obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
* , II.xi:
To remove from membership.
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To deport.
Outcast is a synonym of expelled.
As verbs the difference between outcast and expelled
is that outcast is to cast out; to banish while expelled is (expel).As an adjective outcast
is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.As a noun outcast
is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.outcast
English
Verb
- All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].
Adjective
(en adjective)- Outcast , rejected.
Synonyms
* (pariah) outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar * See alsoDerived terms
* social outcastAnagrams
*expelled
English
Alternative forms
*expeled (US )Verb
(head)expel
English
Verb
- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
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