DEPORTING Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

deporting

verb

Definition of deporting next

present participle of deport

as in exiling

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

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as in carrying

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 deporting The United States was deporting her and 13 other West Africans to Ghana, a country none of them called their own. —

Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 10 May 2026 Badenoch has called for stronger enforcement, including deporting foreign preachers who are spreading hate in mosques and other institutions. —

Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026 The process of finding and deporting criminals who are here illegally should be managed aggressively, efficiently and humanely, seeking the cooperation of all Americans to help identify them. —

Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 That law simplified the process for deporting new arrivals who lacked authorization to be in the country, but a different law allowed people already in the country to ask an immigration judge for bond. —

ABC News, 7 May 2026 Last October, Israeli forces stopped the GSF's previous flotilla from reaching Gaza, arresting and deporting more than 470 people, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. —

Frank Andrews, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026 But in 1942, the Nazis began deporting Dutch Jews. —

Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026 The effort to remove the soldier’s wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration detention center Monday, has drawn criticism from military family advocates who called the detention demoralizing in a time of war and warned that deporting spouses could undermine recruitment. —

Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Housing would be freed up by deporting some people and putting others in jail. —

Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

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The anti-Zionist project of ending Israel’s existence as a Jewish state implies killing, subjugating, or re-exiling more than half of the world’s Jewish population.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Ruthlessly exiling those players sent a clear message about the importance of squad harmony, but arguably handed the leverage in negotiations to buying clubs, driving down their prices and delaying their departures.

— James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025