Expatriated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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              The expatriated landed interest of France. --Burke.
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     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.
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