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Expatriating

Expatriate \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expatriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating.] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.]

  1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

    The expatriated landed interest of France.
    --Burke.

  2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

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expatriating

vb. (present participle of expatriate English)