expatriate
verb (used with object)
to banish (a person) from their native country.
had expatriated
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past perfectof expatriate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Father Griffen was ignorant of the fact that the chevalier had exhausted the resources of France, and therefore had expatriated himself.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
But I knew several poor girls, who, on the faith of dazzling promises, had expatriated themselves.
From Other People's Money by Émile Gaboriau
This case was by no means similar to that of Marcellus, who was exiled by no direct forfeiture of his right to live in Italy, but who had expatriated himself.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
He had expatriated himself many years ago and was in Madagascar.
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
He would be made to feel that he had expatriated himself, and neither himself nor his parents would be in good standing in the community.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
