extern
verb/ekˈstɜːn/
/ekˈstɜːrn/
(Indian English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they extern | /ekˈstɜːn/ /ekˈstɜːrn/ |
| he / she / it externs | /ekˈstɜːnz/ /ekˈstɜːrnz/ |
| past simple externed | /ekˈstɜːnd/ /ekˈstɜːrnd/ |
| past participle externed | /ekˈstɜːnd/ /ekˈstɜːrnd/ |
| -ing form externing | /ekˈstɜːnɪŋ/ /ekˈstɜːrnɪŋ/ |
- extern somebody (from something) to order somebody to leave a region or district as a punishment
- The police have drawn up plans to extern notorious criminals from the city.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘external’): from French externe or Latin externus, from exter ‘outer’. The word was used by Shakespeare to mean ‘outward appearance’; current noun senses date from the early 17th cent.
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