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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Expulsion \Ex*pul"sion\, noun [L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F. expulsion. See {Expel}.]
1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
The expulsion of the Tarquins. --Shak.
2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
expulsion
noun
1: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: {ejection}, {exclusion}, {riddance}]
2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" [syn: {extrusion}]
3: the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: {projection}, {ejection}, {forcing out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "expulsion": banishment, blowout, booting out, cashiering, clearance, communication, conduction, contagion, convection, deconsecration, defenestration, defrocking, delivery, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, detachment, dethronement, detrusion, diapedesis, diffusion, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discharge, discrownment, disenthronement, disgorgement, disjunction, dismissal, displacement, disposal, disposition, dissemination, ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emission, eradication, eructation, eruption, eviction, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expelling, export, exportation, extradition, extravasation, extrusion, firing, forced resignation, impeachment, import, importation, interchange, jet, jettison, kicking downstairs, kicking upstairs, liquidation, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, obtrusion, osmosis, ostracism, ouster, ousting, outburst, outlawing, outlawry, outpour, overthrow, overthrowal, passage, passing over, pensioning off, perfusion, purge, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, retirement, riddance, sacking, severance, spout, spread, spreading, spurt, squirt, superannuation, suspension, the boot, the bounce, the sack, throwing out, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, withdrawal
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