decenter
to put out of the center or make eccentric: The goal is to decenter the treatment zone of the eye to align with the line of sight instead of the geometric center of the cornea.
to remove from a position of priority or dominance so as to give attention and influence to other viewpoints, concerns, etc.: The new version of the test will force high schools to teach history from a perspective that decenters whiteness.The author’s call to decenter the self, to make empathetic leaps toward the other, is unsentimental yet moving.
Astronomy. to cause (an orbit) to follow a path in which the body being orbited is not at the center: A decentered orbit is temporary—all orbits around a single body become elliptical and centered in due time.
to shift one’s attention from one’s usual focus or preoccupation: As therapists we must decenter from our own perspective and experience the client through their own way of being in the world.
Origin of decenter
1- Also especially British, de·cen·tre .
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How to use decenter in a sentence
I still need to work on a lot of this stuff, but the clarity that you get from extricating yourself from that situation, from just trying to decenter work a little bit, I think is super powerful.
But I want her to think well of me—I want to show her that I'm as decent as most men 'round these parts, and decenter than some.
Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery | Theodore Goodridge RobertsI saw at once that he was a good deal decenter than he looked.
Yellowstone Nights | Herbert QuickBut it will be far decenter and better for a parties to enter into some agreement of that sort.
The Entail | John GaltThere was a theory in his family that it would have been a decenter thing for him to stop running about and settle down to work.
Graustark | George Barr McCutcheon
I am in another man's skin; for what, after all, is a skin but a soul's clothing, and what is clothing but a decenter skin?
Kenelm Chillingly, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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