(~s, exiling, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If someone is living in ~, they are living in a foreign country because they cannot live in their own country, usually for political reasons.
He is now living in ~ in Egypt...
He returned from ~ earlier this year.
...after nearly six years of ~...
During his ~, he also began writing books.
N-UNCOUNT: usu prep N
2.
If someone is ~d, they are living in a foreign country because they cannot live in their own country, usually for political reasons.
His second wife, Hilary, had been widowed, then ~d from South Africa...
They threatened to ~ her in southern Spain.
...Haiti’s ~d president.
VERB: be V-ed from n, V n, V-ed
3.
An ~ is someone who has been ~d.
N-COUNT
4.
If you say that someone has been ~d from a particular place or situation, you mean that they have been sent away from it or removed from it against their will.
He has been ~d from the first team and forced to play in third team matches...
= banish
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed from n
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Exile is also a noun.
Rovers lost 4-1 and began their long ~ from the First Division.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N from n