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appellant
appellant
adj : of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually
legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: {appellate}]
n : the party who appeals a decision of a lower court [syn: {plaintiff
in error}]


excellent
excellent
adj : of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the
school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
[syn: {first-class}, {fantabulous}]


excellently
excellently
adv : in an excellent manner; "the job had been done excellently"


expectant
expectant
adj 1: marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush" [syn: {anticipant},
{anticipative}]
2: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: {big(p)}, {enceinte}, {gravid},
{great(p)}, {large(p)}, {heavy(p)}, {with child(p)}]


expectantly
expectantly
adv : in an expectant manner; "she looked at him expectantly"


expelling
expelling
n : any of several bodily processes by which substances go out
of the body; "the discharge of pus" [syn: {discharge}, {emission}]

expel
v 1: force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native
country" [syn: {throw out}, {kick out}]
2: put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from
the classroom" [syn: {eject}, {chuck out}, {exclude}, {throw
out}, {kick out}, {turf out}, {boot out}, {turn out}]
3: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted
after he misappropriated funds" [syn: {oust}, {throw out},
{drum out}, {boot out}, {kick out}]
4: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
[syn: {rout}, {rout out}]
5: eliminate (substances) from the body [syn: {discharge}, {eject},
{release}]
[also: {expelling}, {expelled}]

expelling
See {expel}


repellant
repellant
adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and
prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness
repellent" [syn: {rebarbative}, {repellent}]
2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a
disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome
disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me";
"revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: {disgusting}, {disgustful},
{distasteful}, {foul}, {loathly}, {loathsome}, {repellent},
{repelling}, {revolting}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
[syn: {repellent}]
2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: {repellent}]
3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his
advances" [syn: {repellent}]

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