extradite
verb🔊/ˈekstrədaɪt/
🔊/ˈekstrədaɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they extradite | 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪt/ 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪt/ |
| he / she / it extradites | 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪts/ 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪts/ |
| past simple extradited | 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle extradited | 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form extraditing | 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈekstrədaɪtɪŋ/ |
- extradite somebody (to…) (from…)
to officially send back somebody who has been accused or found guilty of a crime to the country where the crime was committed 引渡（嫌犯或罪犯） The British government attempted to extradite the suspects from Belgium. 英国政府试图从比利时引渡犯罪嫌疑人。 🔊🔊 The courts have refused to extradite the suspects from Spain. 法庭拒绝从西班牙引渡那几名犯罪嫌疑人。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExtradite is used with these nouns as the object:- suspect
Word Originmid 19th cent.: back-formation from extradition.