Deport

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English

Verb

Deport (third-person singular simple present Deports, present participle Deporting, simple past and past participle Deported)

  1. (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
  2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.

Thesaurus

abstract, acquit, act, assign, ban, banish, bear, blackball, carry, carry over, cast off, cast out, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, communicate, comport, conduct, consign, cut, cut out, deliver, demean, diffuse, disfellowship, displace, dispose of, disseminate, eject, elide, eliminate, emigrate, eradicate, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, export, extradite, fugitate, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, go on, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, lag, liquidate, make over, metastasize, metathesize, ostracize, oust, out-migrate, outlaw, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, pick out, proscribe, purge, quit, relay, relegate, remigrate, remove, root out, root up, rusticate, send away, send down, send to Coventry, snub, spread, spurn, strike off, strike out, switch, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, turn over, weed out

Etymology

From Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

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Noun

Deport m. (oblique plural deporz, nominative singular deporz, nominative plural Deport)

  1. enjoyment; fun

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