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Deporting

Deport \De*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deported; p. pr. & vb. n. Deporting.] [F. d['e]porter to transport for life, OF., to divert, amuse, from L. deportare to carry away; de- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]

  1. To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment; to expel (from a region or country).

    He told us he had been deported to Spain.
    --Walsh.

  2. To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

    Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner befor a prince.
    --Pope.

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deporting

vb. (present participle of deport English)

Usage examples of "deporting".

Hell, when the Great Dispersal was at its peak, Earth was deporting over ten million people a week.

As well as deporting you, I am officially issuing you with a police caution.

He gave full powers to a high police official, who promptly solved the problem by throwing everybody into jailor deporting them to penal work islands.

This didn’t help much and the police minister solved his problem by arresting and deporting to penal colonies any male suspected of being a mafioso.

What was significant was that the Saudis had a way of deporting their own potential troublemakers by allowing them to go elsewhere and do their crimes, and if they suffered for it, the Saudi government would be cooperative as hell, thus covering all of its bases quite easily.

Yet Isabelle was deporting herself very well when all was taken into account, that is with the exception of her craze for shooting.

Vosterov's Party branch shot for bringing the fearful apparition to his favourite event of the year, but waves of uncertainty seemed to spread out from the delegate for Central Moscow so instead the General Secretary contented himself with half-heartedly deporting some Ukrainians to Siberia.

Turveydrop deporting himself so beautifully, when the latter came ambling up to me and entered into conversation.

Whatwas significant was that the Saudis had a way of deporting their own poten­tial troublemakers by allowing them to go elsewhere and do their crimes, and if they suffered for it, the Saudi government would be cooperative as hell, thus covering all of its bases quite easily.

To hang or exile them, and depopulate and suffer to run to waste the lands they had cultivated, were sad thrift, sadder than that of deporting four millions of negroes and colored men.

We hear that the United States has taken to deporting immigrants, we know of at least one war in Africa in the recent past, and so on.