Synonyms of deporting

deporting

verb

present participle of deport

1

as in exiling

to force to leave a country

deported them back to their country of birth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exiling
• banishing
• relegating
• evicting
• transporting
• expatriating
• displacing
• expelling
• eliminating
• dismissing
• excluding
• ejecting
• excommunicating
• running out
• ostracizing
• casting out
• ousting
• dispossessing
• kicking out
• spurning
• rejecting
• repudiating
• expulsing
• throwing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• receiving
• admitting
• repatriating
• accepting
• naturalizing
• taking in
• sheltering
• harboring
• entertaining
• housing

2

as in carrying

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way

deported herself with grace and propriety at the country club cotillion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• carrying
• acquitting
• behaving
• restraining
• conducting
• handling
• composing
• containing
• collecting
• quitting
• controlling
• comporting
• demeaning
• curbing
• repressing
• checking
• constraining
• inhibiting
• bearing
• playing
• quieting
• acting
• modulating
• moderating
• tempering
• impersonating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misbehaving
• carrying on
• cutting up
• acting up
• misconducting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deporting

The deportations set off a legal battle, and the Supreme Court blocked the government from immediately deporting the Venezuelans without giving them an opportunity to challenge their removal. — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026

United Nations experts said in March that Russia had committed crimes against humanity and war crimes by deporting Ukrainian children from their home country. — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

Second, Democrats should support ample resources for policing the border and for deporting people who cross it illegally. — David Yassky, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026

Even for an agency that has been accused by multiple federal judges of flagrantly violating the law, actually deporting American citizens isn’t so easy. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

According to the Wall Street Journal, the raid was part of an investigation into her immigration paperwork with the explicit goal of denaturalizing and deporting her. — Miles Bryan, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026

Her concern stems from the claim by the powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, who first said the voter revision would be aimed at detecting, deleting and deporting infiltrators. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026

Last year, the Republican administration began suddenly terminating the legal status of thousands of international students, detaining and deporting many of them. — Annie Ma, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Now Trump’s folks are rounding up and deporting people who were jailed in their home country for the sin of defending democracy. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026