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deport

verb
/dɪˈpɔɹt/US/dɪˈpɔːt/UK/dɪˈpoɹt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

  1. borrowed from déporter

Definitions

  1. To comport (oneself)

    To comport (oneself); to behave.

    • Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

  2. To evict, especially from a country.

    • Ask her to deport all illegals living in this town without a green card or the appropriate documents that prove their naturalized citizenship.
    • Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.
    • Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deport. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deport. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at deport

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA