Meanings
present singular third person extradites · participle present extraditing · participle past extradited · past extradited
- transitiveTo remove a person from one state to another by legal process.
Balfour, who had sought refuge in Argentina, was extradited, and sentenced to a long term of penal servitude at Parkhurst Prison in the Isle of Wight.
1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 216
Synonyms & antonyms
verbhand over to the authorities of another country
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Back-formation from extradition.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian екстради́рам
- екстради́рам (ekstradíram)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Catalan extradir
- extradirto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Chinese Mandarin 引渡
- 引渡 (yǐndù)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Dutch uitleveren, uitzetten
- uitleverento remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
- uitzettento remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Esperanto ekstradicii
- ekstradiciito remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Finnish luovuttaa
- luovuttaato remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
French extrader
- extraderto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
German ausliefern
- ausliefernto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Greek απελαύνω, εκδίδω
- απελαύνω (apelávno)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
- εκδίδω (ekdído)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Hindi प्रत्यर्पित करना
- प्रत्यर्पित करना (pratyarpit karnā)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Irish eiseachaid
- eiseachaidto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Italian estradare
- estradareto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Japanese 引き渡す
- 引き渡す (hikiwatasu)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Polish ekstradować
- ekstradowaćto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Portuguese extraditar
- extraditarto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Romanian extrăda
- extrădato remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Russian выдава́ть, вы́дать
- выдава́ть (vydavátʹ)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
- вы́дать (výdatʹ)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
- экстради́ровать (ekstradírovatʹ)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Spanish extraditar
- extraditarto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Swedish utlämna
- utlämnato remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Ukrainian проводити екстрадицію, провести екстрадицію
- проводити екстрадицію (provodyty ekstradyciju)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
- провести екстрадицію (provesty ekstradyciju)to remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Vietnamese dẫn độ
- dẫn độto remove a person from one jurisdiction to another by legal process
Cite this entry
extradite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extradite
“extradite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extradite. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extradite,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extradite.
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