De-pōrt'1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. DEPORTED; p. pr. & vb. n. DEPORTING.] [Fr. déporter, to transport for life, O. Fr., to divert, amuse, Pr. deportar, to divert, Sp. deportar, It. diportare, from Lat. deportare, to carry away, to transport, from de and portare, to carry. Cf. DEPORTMENT.]
Sense 1. To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
He told us he had been deported to Spain, with a hundred others like himself. Walsh.
Sense 2. To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave;—followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Let an embassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince. Pope.