deracinate
verb (used with object)
to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
deracination
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a word derived from
deracinate.
Example Sentences
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In its place we get the milder problem of deracination, since she will have to move to Hemant’s home in the States: Can she learn to love New Jersey?
From New York Times ● May 23, 2023
It’s really Felicity who functions as our protagonist, as we witness her dogged, creative pursuit of justice, despite all the deracination she experiences.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
But the recognition afforded by memorials such as Wyoming’s demonstrate the power of a memory that fuels an enduring presence in the face of victimry and deracination.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2014
Photograph: Richard Saker / Rex Features Americanah, wrote Sam Leith in the Financial Times, is "a novel about race and deracination, homesickness, the experience of, and need for, feeling at home."
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2013
They can be explained—in part at least—in terms of that social deracination to which reference has already been made.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
