expatriate
verb (used with object)
to banish (a person) from their native country.
expatriated
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past participleof expatriate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof expatriate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
expatriateverb (used with object)to banish (a person) from their native country.
Example Sentences
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The story follows a Russian writer named M, who has expatriated to someplace in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The following year, an appraiser Ver hired to value his companies asked him in an email to provide the number of Bitcoins he owned when he expatriated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Along with his second wife, Shirley Graham, Du Bois expatriated to Ghana in his final years, where he joined an ensemble of Pan-Africanists dedicated to President Kwame Nkrumah’s extraordinary experiment in postcolonial nation-building.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
Nearly 1,800 citizens and permanent residents, a record since data was first compiled in 1998, expatriated last year, according to government figures.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2012
With intense longing did his thoughts these days revert to the Western lands from which he had voluntarily expatriated himself.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
