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depatriate

verb /diːˈpætɹɪ(j)eɪt/

  1. To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish or expatriate.

    obsolete

    A subject born in any state / May, if he please, depatriate.

Where it comes from

From de- + Latin patria (“fatherland”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an altered borrowing from Medieval Latin dispatriō.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry depatriate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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