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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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
For this is not the comedy of deracination it at first seems; it’s a comedy of re-racination, of discovering one’s authentic self by stripping away the disfigurements of ambition.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
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
This record comes in the wake of recent hostilities in Mali, and partly serves as another reaffirmation of Tuareg culture in the face of mass deracination.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 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
