Idioms

exile (someone) to (some place)

exile (someone) to (some place)

To banish someone from one place to another, often as retribution. The official decree exiled him to his native country. If our enemies advance any further, they could exile the president to a secret location! Was Napoleon really exiled to the island of Elba?
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