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exile

2 verb
     
exile2 [transitive usually passive]
to force someone to leave their country, especially for political reasons
exile somebody to something
Several of the leaders were arrested and exiled to France.
exile somebody from something
a dictator who was exiled from his home country
the exiled former president
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