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deport

UK/dɪˈpɔːt//dɪˈpɔɹt/

deport verb: to comport (oneself); to behave.

deport: to comport (oneself); to behave
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Verb

deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

  1. (archaic, reflexive) To comport (oneself); to behave.
    • Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell
  2. (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
    • Ask her to deport all illegals living in this town without a green card or the appropriate documents that prove their naturalized citizenship.
    • Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban

deport meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

deport in Hindi

to evict, especially from a country
पेश आना peś ānā

deport in Tamil

நாடு கடத்து, நாடுகடத்து, வெளியேற்று

deport in Urdu

برتاؤ کرنا, ملک بدر کرنا, پیش آنا, شہربدر کرنا

deport in Bengali

নির্বাসিত করা
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deport in Malayalam
നാടുകടത്തുക, ബഹിഷ്കരിക്ക, നിഷ്കാസനം ചെയ്യുക, ഗളഹസ്തം ചെയ്യുക
deport in Kannada
ಗಡೀಪಾರು ಮಾಡು, ಹೊರಗಟ್ಟು, ದೇಶದಿಂದ ಹೊರಗಟ್ಟು, ದೇಶಾಂತರ ಕಳುಹಿಸು
deport in Arabic
طَرَدَ ṭarada
deport in Thai
เนรเทศ nee-rá-têet
deport in Vietnamese
trục xuất

Examples of deport in a sentence

  • After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the principal party members were denaturalized and deported.
  • He should be stripped of his US citizenship, and deported back to Muslimville, post haste.
  • And they worried that it perpetuated fear within immigrant communities of ICE’s aggressive tactics to deport those who are undocumented.

All 19 example sentences with deport

Forms of deport

third-person singular presentdeports
present participledeporting
past participledeported
pastdeported

Past tense of deport: deported

Origin of deport

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

Words formed from deport

Questions about deport

What does deport mean?
Deport means to comport (oneself); to behave.
What is deport in Hindi?
Deport in Hindi is पेश आना (peś ānā). See Deport meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is deport?
Deport is a verb.
How do you pronounce deport?
Deport is pronounced /dɪˈpɔɹt/ (US).
What is the past tense of deport?
The past tense of deport is deported.

Words near deport in the dictionary

  1. depopulation
  2. depopulations
  3. depopulative
  4. depopulator
  5. depopulators
  6. deport
  7. deportability
  8. deportable
  9. deportables
  10. deportalized
  11. deportation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deport (page history and authors); deport (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deport (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deport (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deport (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deport (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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