Deport
[dɪ'pɔːt] or [dɪ'pɔrt]
Definition
(v. t.) To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
(v. t.) To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(n.) Behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment.
Typist: Willie
Definition
v.t. to transport to exile: to behave.—ns. Deportā′tion transportation exile; Deport′ment carriage behaviour.
Typist: Phil
Examples
- She was shocked and frightened, but she put that away, thinking of how she should deport herself with Gerald: act her part. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'd deport him! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It affected the mixed people who had been placed in Samaria, the old capital of the kings of Israel when the ten tribes were deported to Media. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Willard