expulsive

[ ik-spuhl-siv ]

adjective

1. tending or serving to expel.

Other Words From

• nonex·pulsive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of expulsive¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French expulsive (feminine) < Medieval Latin expulsīvus. See expulsion, -ive

Example Sentences

Some parts of the birth story I can only hope to forget: induction, complications, “failure to progress,” interventions, fetal distress, “poor expulsive effort,” tearing, episiotomy, hemorrhage.

From New York Times

In Los Piletones, too, residents were against being handed the official deeds, says Dos Santos – “because that could mean that people start selling their land, and then the neighbourhood is at the mercy of the market. And the market will have an expulsive effect on the poorest. The poorest people could start losing their homes and going to live in places even worse than this.”

From The Guardian

In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.

From The Guardian

In his spirited account of the coalition years, Clegg revealed how his relationship with Michael Gove soured to the point where Gove banned Lib Dem special advisers from entering the Department for Education, let loose his “somewhat unhinged advisers” to brief against Clegg, and on one particularly expulsive occasion “hid in the toilet to avoid speaking to David Laws”.

From The Guardian

This is the expulsive part of Goldberg's personality and art: the paradoxical point where regulation meets — and briefly blends — with chaos.

From Los Angeles Times