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View definitions for expulsive

expulsive

adjective as in eliminative

adjective as in eliminatory

adjective as in excretory

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Example Sentences

The "expulsive power of a new affection" is, after all, the mightiest agency in reform.

Elimination can only be secured by a proper expulsive effort.

Von Guericke, however, recognized it as such, and refers to it as what he calls "expulsive virtue."

The expulsive force of a new emotion had for the time driven out all temptation.

Occasionally, long passages in music demand that the expulsive power of the breathing apparatus be used to its limit.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expulsive, such as: aperient, cathartic, eliminatory, evacuant, evacuative, and excretory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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