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expulsive

/ik-spuhl-siv/US // ɪkˈspʌl sɪv //UK // (ɪkˈspʌlsɪv) //

驱逐性的,驱逐性,驱逐式的,驱赶性的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending or serving to expel.

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Examples

  • 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.