DEPORT Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

Q: How does the verb 'deport' contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of deport are banish , exile , and transport . While all these words mean "to remove by authority from a state or country," deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare. // illegal aliens will be deported

Q: When might 'banish' be a better fit than 'deport'?

In some situations, the words banish and deport are roughly equivalent. However, banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own. // banished for seditious activities

Q: When is it sensible to use 'exile' instead of 'deport'?

The synonyms exile and deport are sometimes interchangeable, but exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country. // a writer who exiled himself for political reasons

Q: When is 'transport' a more appropriate choice than 'deport'?

The meanings of transport and deport largely overlap; however, transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony. // a convict who was transported to Australia

deport

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di-ˈpȯrt

Definition of deport

as in to exile

to force to leave a country deported them back to their country of birth

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as in to acquit

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way deported herself with grace and propriety at the country club cotillion

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How does the verb deport contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of deport are banish, exile, and transport. While all these words mean "to remove by authority from a state or country," deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.

illegal aliens will be deported

When might banish be a better fit than deport?

In some situations, the words banish and deport are roughly equivalent. However, banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own.

banished for seditious activities

When is it sensible to use exile instead of deport?

The synonyms exile and deport are sometimes interchangeable, but exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country.

a writer who exiled himself for political reasons

When is transport a more appropriate choice than deport?

The meanings of transport and deport largely overlap; however, transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony.

a convict who was transported to Australia

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Recent Examples of deport In July this year, Jamaica’s government said two of its three citizens deported to the tiny kingdom have formally declined offers to be repatriated to the Caribbean nation. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 After her fifth rebooking, she was transferred to the first of four ICE detention centers, then deported to France. — Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2026 At the end of Season 1, Issa agrees to marry Paul Baker in order to keep him from getting deported. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2026 Pineda-Perez also pleaded guilty to illegally returning to the United States after being deported. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for deport

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Located in Jerusalem, al-Wasiti became, for years, the place to visit, empowering Palestinian artists exiled all over the world to return to a fountain of unity and belonging.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of exile

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Prosecutors decided to retry Read, and she was acquitted of the most serious charges, second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death, by a new jury in June 2025.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
She was acquitted in 1893 but has remained on of the most infamous murder suspects in American history.

— Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of acquit

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The Legislature passed late Sunday a bill that would banish lobbyists convicted of corruption from the Capitol for 12 years.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Any doubts over whether that deal would be concluded would have been banished as soon as Riad was taken off.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of banish

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Search for jet quenching Previous experiments suggest that a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, even as temperatures remained extremely high, matter did not behave like gas but instead like liquid with very low viscosity.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
The denim industry does not necessarily need another product that behaves exactly like PP.

— Alice Tonello, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of behave

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The main drama involves a rural teen-age tee girl who recognizes the resort’s president as the potentate who evicted her family from their land.

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
In 1968 Britain considered evicting the family by force, with declassified documents showing a plan to raze the fort.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of evict

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Appropriately so, given the placid recent range and the clockwork mechanics of sector rotation and low-correlation restraining index-level volatility.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
This was the context for Justice Brewer’s remarks about Philip sober restraining Philip drunk.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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