Unwanted vs Expelled - What's the difference?
unwanted | expelled | Related terms |
One who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.
* 1963 , The Nyasaland Journal (volumes 16-17, page 12)
* 1970 , Triumph (volumes 5-6, page 7)
(expel)
To eject or erupt.
(obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
* , II.xi:
To remove from membership.
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To deport.
Unwanted is a related term of expelled.
As an adjective unwanted
is not wanted, welcome or acceptable.As a noun unwanted
is one who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.As a verb expelled is
(expel).unwanted
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "unwanted" is often applied: effect, consequence, pregnancy, child, baby, person, guest, visitor, gift, thought, element, sound, sex, feature.Noun
(en noun)- What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities
- There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds . It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.
expelled
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Alternative forms
*expeled (US )Verb
(head)expel
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Verb
- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
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