Meanings
present singular third person deports · participle present deporting · participle past deported · past deported
- transitiveTo 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.
3 more examples
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 BobanBrexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.
2021 February 12, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFPIn another case pending at the Supreme Court, the administration conceded it made an error in deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador last month but is fighting efforts to bring him back to the US.
2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN
Synonyms & antonyms
verbhand over to the authorities of another country
verbbehave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latindeportō
- Old Frenchdeporter“behave”
- Frenchdéporter
- Englishdeport
Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic طَرَدَ
- طَرَدَ (ṭarada)to evict, especially from a country
Basque deportatu
- deportatuto evict, especially from a country
Bulgarian изсе́лвам, изсе́ля
- изсе́лвам (izsélvam)to evict, especially from a country
- изсе́ля (izsélja)to evict, especially from a country
- изго́нвам (izgónvam)to evict, especially from a country
- изго́ня (izgónja)to evict, especially from a country
- депорти́рам (deportíram)to evict, especially from a country
Catalan deportar
- deportarto evict, especially from a country
Chinese Mandarin 驅逐出境 /驱逐出境, 驅逐 /驱逐
- 驅逐出境 /驱逐出境 (qūzhú chūjìng)to evict, especially from a country
- 驅逐 /驱逐 (qūzhú)to evict, especially from a country
Czech deportovat, vyhostit
- deportovatto evict, especially from a country
- vyhostitto evict, especially from a country
Danish udvise, deportere
- udviseto evict, especially from a country
- deportereto evict, especially from a country
Dutch uitzetten, deporteren
- uitzettento evict, especially from a country
- deporterento evict, especially from a country
Estonian deporteerima
- deporteerimato evict, especially from a country
Finnish karkottaa, karkottaa maasta
- karkottaato evict, especially from a country
- karkottaa maastato evict, especially from a country
French déporter
- déporterto evict, especially from a country
German abschieben, ausweisen
- abschiebento evict, especially from a country
- ausweisento evict, especially from a country
- deportierento evict, especially from a country
Greek εξορίζω
- εξορίζω (exorízo)to evict, especially from a country
Hebrew גירש, גֵּרֵשׁ
- גירשto evict, especially from a country
- גֵּרֵשׁ (gerésh)to evict, especially from a country
Hindi पेश आना
- पेश आना (peś ānā)to evict, especially from a country
Hungarian deportál, kitelepít
- deportálto evict, especially from a country
- kitelepítto evict, especially from a country
Italian deportare
- deportareto evict, especially from a country
Japanese 追放する
- 追放する (tsuihō suru)to evict, especially from a country
Korean 추방하다
- 추방하다 (chubanghada)to evict, especially from a country
Latin dēportō
- dēportōto evict, especially from a country
Latvian deportēt, izsūtīt
- deportētto evict, especially from a country
- izsūtītto evict, especially from a country
Lithuanian deportuoti, ištremti
- deportuotito evict, especially from a country
- ištremtito evict, especially from a country
- tremtito evict, especially from a country
Māori terepu, tūwhiti
- tereputo evict, especially from a country
- tūwhitito evict, especially from a country
Norwegian Bokmål deportere, utvise
- deportereto evict, especially from a country
- utviseto evict, especially from a country
Polish deportować, wyganiać
- deportowaćto evict, especially from a country
- wyganiaćto evict, especially from a country
- wygnaćto evict, especially from a country
Portuguese deportar
- deportarto evict, especially from a country
Romanian a deporta
- a deportato evict, especially from a country
Russian депорти́ровать, высыла́ть
- депорти́ровать (deportírovatʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- высыла́ть (vysylátʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- вы́слать (výslatʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- выдворя́ть (vydvorjátʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- вы́дворить (výdvoritʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- изгоня́ть (izgonjátʹ)to evict, especially from a country
- изгна́ть (izgnátʹ)to evict, especially from a country
Slovak deportovať, vyhostiť
- deportovaťto evict, especially from a country
- vyhostiťto evict, especially from a country
- vysídliťto evict, especially from a country
Spanish deportar
- deportarto evict, especially from a country
Swedish deportera, utvisa
- deporterato evict, especially from a country
- utvisato evict, especially from a country
- förvisato evict, especially from a country
Thai เนรเทศ
- เนรเทศ (nee-rá-têet)to evict, especially from a country
Turkish sınırdışı etmek
- sınırdışı etmekto evict, especially from a country
Ukrainian висила́ти, ви́слати
- висила́ти (vysyláty)to evict, especially from a country
- ви́слати (výslaty)to evict, especially from a country
- депортува́ти (deportuváty)to evict, especially from a country
Vietnamese trục xuất
- trục xuấtto evict, especially from a country
Welsh allgludo
- allgludoto evict, especially from a country
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Cite this entry
deport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deport
“deport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deport. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deport,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deport.
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