| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·port |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -pôrt , -p rt |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports
1. To expel from a country. See synonyms at banish. 2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French déporter, to banish, from Latin d port re, to carry away : d-, de- + portre, to carry; see per-2 in Appendix I. Sense 2, Middle English, from Old French deporter, to behave, from Latin dportre.
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