Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expatriate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Expatriate \Ex*pa"tri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expatriated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Expatriating}.] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of
expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr.
pater father. See {Patriot}.]
1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own
country; to make an exile of.
The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke.
2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from
one's native country; to renounce the rights and
liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a
citizen of another country.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
expatriate
n : voluntarily absent from home or country [syn: {exile}]
v 1: expel from a country [syn: {deport}, {exile}] [ant: {repatriate}]
2: move away from one's native country and adopt a new
residence abroad
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