deported

de-port-ed · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Past tense and past participle of *deport*; expelled from a country, typically for violating immigration law or for political reasons.

  2. 2.

    Exiled or banished to another country.

Related words

Antonyms: admitted, welcomed
See also: deport, deportation, exile
Synonyms: banished, exiled, expelled, removed

Etymology

From Latin deportare, from de- (away) + portare (to carry). Originally meant "to carry away" before taking on the legal sense of forced removal. The -ed suffix marks the past tense in English.