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Extradite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To give up or deliver (a fugitive, for example) to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority.

v. To obtain the extradition of. See Synonyms at banish.

verb-intransitive. To perform the act of extradition or engage in the process of extradition: "Rio or Uruguay or wherever it is that they do not extradite for murder” ( Scott Turow).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See extradition.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To deliver or give up, as to another nation: as, to extradite a criminal.

To project in perception by a psychological process (a sensation) to a distance from the body.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. hand over to the authorities of another country

Word Usage

"He called on Police Commissioner Fivas to "extradite" all white business people involved in corruption in the former Transkei, back there."

Verb Form

extradited extradites extraditing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

expel kick out throw out

Variant

extradition

Hyponym

repatriate

Form

extradited extraditing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

deliver