Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to expel; having the power of driving out or away.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.

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Examples

  • " Instead of teaching women to " push, " Ms. Mongan says, she teaches them to use the " natural expulsive reflex " and " birth breathing.

    Expecting a Baby, But Not the Pain Anne Marie Chaker 2010

  • An anal expulsive personality is broadly defined as exhibiting cruelty, emotional outbursts, disorganization, self-confidence, liberal-mindedness, sometimes artistic ability, generosity, rebelliousness and general carelessness.

    About my proposed Titus recording. Ann Althouse 2009

  • What was it that made anything come out of the body? the expulsive faculty.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • The moaning had stopped-soft, gently expulsive sounds, like a distant, plaintive fog horn.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Sure, each member of my family has one, but they're all anal-expulsive dramatic types who learned from early Mormon upbringings the importance of putting on a good show.

    j'accuse, et challenge! 2004

  • Sure, each member of my family has one, but they're all anal-expulsive dramatic types who learned from early Mormon upbringings the importance of putting on a good show.

    pentultimatrimonial 2004

  • Freud would say that this conflict can manifest in your personality by giving you a tendency to be unusually disorderly or messy, or "expulsive."

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2003

  • Yet this was just the time when the external air should enter and annul the expulsive movement, whereas it is the opposite that occurs.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • Death is the departure of those forms owing to the expulsive pressure exerted by the surrounding air.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • The mesaraic veins suck out of it what is good and fit, leaving behind the excrements, which are, through special conduits for that purpose, voided by an expulsive faculty.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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