Deportar
Example: Durante la dictadura, muchas personas fueron deportadas injustamente.
Definition
"Deportar" means to forcibly remove someone from their country and send them to another, usually as a legal or political punishment. It often involves expelling individuals deemed undesirable by authorities, as in the phrase: 'During the dictatorship, many people were unjustly deported.'
Etymology
The word "deportar" comes from the Latin 'deportare,' combining 'de-' meaning 'away' and 'portare' meaning 'to carry.' Originally, it referred simply to carrying something away, but over time it came to mean forcibly sending people out of a country. Did you know the root 'portare' also gives us English words like 'transport' and 'portable'?
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"Deportar" appears in the Vocaplus list "Spanish - History - (B2) - set 1", containing 210 commonly used words.
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