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de⋅port

  [di-pawrt, -pohrt]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
2. to send or carry off; transport, esp. forcibly: The country deported its criminals.
3. to bear, conduct, or behave (oneself) in a particular manner.
Origin:
1475–85; < MF déporter < L dēportāre to carry away, banish oneself, equiv. to dē- de- + portāre to carry; see port 5

Related forms:
de⋅port⋅a⋅ble, adjective
de⋅por⋅tee, noun
de⋅port⋅er, noun
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de·port   (dĭ-pôrt', -pōrt')   
tr.v.   de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports

  1. To expel from a country. See Synonyms at banish.

  2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport.


[French déporter, to banish, from Latin dēportāre, to carry away : dē-, de- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, Middle English, from Old French deporter, to behave, from Latin dēportāre.]
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Word Origin & History

deport 
1474, "behavior, bearing," from M.Fr. deporter "behave," from de- "thoroughly, formally" + porter "to carry, bear oneself;" original sense preserved in deportment (1601). Meaning "banish" is first recorded 1641, from Fr. déporter, from L. deportare "carry off, transport, banish;" associated by folk etymology with portus "harbor." Deportee first attested 1895.
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Main Entry: de·port
Pronunciation: di-'pOrt
Function: transitive verb
: to send (an alien) out of a country by order of deportation —compare EXCLUDE —de·port·able adjective
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