extradite
EKS-truh-dyte · verb
English
Origin
Extradite is a back-formation from extradition — meaning speakers took the existing noun and worked backward to invent a verb from it.
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Journey
Rather than the usual path of a verb spawning a noun, this word ran in reverse: extradition came first, and extradite was carved out of it later to describe the act itself.
Related words
It's directly tied to extradition, the noun it was built from — the two share the same root but arrived in the language in the opposite order you'd expect.