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Extradite and its related noun extradition are both ultimately Latin in origin: their source is tradition-, tradition, meaning “the act of handing over.” (The word tradition, though centuries older, has the same source; consider tradition as something handed over from one generation to the next.) While extradition and extradite are of 19th century vintage, the U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, addresses the idea in Article IV: “A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.”
Examples of extradite in a Sentence
Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
Police said the suspect was extradited from a Montgomery County correctional facility to Philadelphia to face formal charges related to the killing.
—Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
More than 30 years after the killing, Missouri police arrested Shepherd and extradited him to Indianapolis to face charges of murder and rape with deadly force, the outlet said.
—Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Ho Shin, 44, was arrested and extradited from South Korea decades after Dae Hyun Kim, 22, and Joon Byun, 19, were stabbed in a Flushing apartment.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Extradite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extradite. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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extradite
verb
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extradite
transitive verb
