DEPORTED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

deported

verb

past tense of deport

as in exiled

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

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as in acquitted

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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Recent Examples of deported Her final clients were two parents and their adult son, who were all in danger of being deported. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Some immigrants have been deported or accepted the government’s offer to leave the country rather than wait for a federal judge to rule on their freedom. — Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026 In July, more than 54,000 immigrants nationwide were ordered deported for missing their court hearing. — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 Ribot realized that her husband could be deported to Africa when news reports emerged about third-country deportations. — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026 He was then sent to an ICE facility before being deported to the United Kingdom the next day. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026 Kamin Jan, a former interior ministry employee deported from Iran, was shot dead in Takhar province in October 2025, just weeks after he was expelled from Iran. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 31 Aug. 2026 Sharma-Crawford did not say if they had already been deported. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026 Dean, a 2004 Roosevelt graduate, said the couple helped raise her when her mother needed support herself and her father was deported back to Haiti in the 1990s. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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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 exiled

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Prosecutors opted 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, in June 2025.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Rogers was acquitted at trial of the more serious charge of conspiracy to commit economic espionage.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of acquitted

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The film is a story about motherhood, survival and resistance that follows a young woman who’s been banished from her community.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Sep. 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 banished

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But in an open system, the worst teams are relegated to lower divisions, while teams that perform well are promoted to the top flight.

— Manuel Rueda, NPR, 30 Aug. 2026
The only other show to have more than one nominee relegated was All Her Fault for acting nominee Dakota Fanning and writing nominee Megan Gallagher.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of relegated

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Several heavy explosions shook Kuhestak, with fireballs that lighted up the night sky, according to security camera recordings carried by the semiofficial news agency Fars.

— David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
The ideas that traveled furthest were carried by story rather than analysis.

— Bryan Adams, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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