unexpelled

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adjective

Not expelled (from somewhere).

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveunexpelled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot expelled (from somewhere).

    […] but we must, on no account, leave the house so long as the afterbirth is unexpelled

    1842, The London Medical Gazette, page 542

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishexpelled
  9. Englishunexpelled

From un- + expelled.

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Translations

Greek άδιωχτος
  • άδιωχτος (ádiochtos)not expelled
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APA

unexpelled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexpelled

MLA

“unexpelled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexpelled. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unexpelled,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexpelled.

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