expressionless, adj. 1. blank, empty, vacuous; dull, dry, unimaginative, boring; wooden, deadpan, poker-faced, straight-faced; unresponsive, undemonstrative, apathetic, unimpassioned.
2. inscrutable, inexplicable, incomprehensible, hidden, mysterious.
expressive, adj. 1. indicative, suggestive, allusive; informative, telling, demonstrative; designative, denotative, denominative, descriptive, representative, de-lineative.
2. meaningful, fraught with meaning, pregnant, significant, significative, thoughtful; pointed, forceful, direct, emphatic, pithy.
3. sympathetic, full of feeling, emotional, passionate; poignant, moving, evocative, artistic; eloquent, viv
id, graphic; deep, intense, powerful.
expropriate, v. 1. seize, commandeer, take possession of, appropriate, misappropriate, arrogate, assume; confiscate, impound, Law. distrain; (all of persons) abduct, impress, conscript, Naut. shanghai, kidnap; wrest from, take from, usurp, accroach; help oneself to, make free with.
2. dispossess, strip, divest, deprive of, Law. disseize, bereave; oust, evict, eject, expel, remove, dislodge.
3. steal, plagiarize, copy, Inf. lift, Inf. crib, forge, counterfeit, pirate, Euph. borrow; rob, despoil, thieve; filch, pilfer, purloin, snatch, make off with, walk off with, Euph. remove.
expropriation, n. 1. forceful seizure, takeover, appropriation, confiscation, impoundment, (usu. of persons) abduction; (all usu. in reference to military service) impress, conscript, Naut. shanghai, crimp; arroga-tion, usurpation, accroachment, assumption.
2. dispossession, deprivation, deprival, divestiture, bereavement, Law. disseizin; deposition, dislodgment, dismissal, displacement, demotion.
3. theft, thievery, stealing; plagiarism, piracy, pirating, forgery, counterfeiting; robbery, rapine, pillaging, plunder, spoliation, stripping.
expulsion, n. 1. discharge, ejection, pushing out; elimination, excretion, voiding, voidance, evacuation, dislodgment.
2. exile, banishment, expatriation, deportation, transportation; banning, ostracization, excommunication, proscription, marooning, isolation, segregation, outlawing.
3. eviction, rejection, repudiation; SI. the boot, Inf. the old heavc-ho, ouster, dismissal, removal, firing, sacking, bouncing; cashiering, disbarment, drumming out.
expunge, v. 1. obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, exterminate, annihilate, abolish, discreate; blot out, strike out, stamp out, snuff out, crush out; devastate, destroy, demolish, ravage, desolate, ruin, Dial, ruinate, raze; efface, wipe out, do away with, remove, liquidate, purge, leave no vestige or trace of; eliminate, put an end to, get rid of, extinguish, bring to an end, dispose of; quash, quell, squelch, crush, vanquish, subdue, squash.