deracinate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
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to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment.
verb
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to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
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to remove, as from a natural environment
Other Word Forms
- deracination noun
Etymology
Origin of deracinate
First recorded in 1590–1600; from French déracin(er), equivalent to dé- + -raciner, verbal derivative of racine “root,” from Late Latin rādīcīna for Latin rādīc-, stem of rādīx + -ate; dis- 1, root 1 ( def. ), -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
From Los Angeles Times
Fiction matters more now, in a world increasingly deracinated by technology.
From New York Times
Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.
From Los Angeles Times
Like nearly everyone in this novel, she leads a globalized, deracinated life.
From New York Times
It will do so diminished and deracinated, a shadow of what it was meant to be, but it will go on regardless, irrefutable proof of big-time soccer’s barrel-chested, bullheaded intransigence.
From New York Times
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