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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Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023
To collect the artistic riches from the region and put them on display in the Sassi would deracinate them, he argues.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015
Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
You cannot deracinate that wide-rooted dogma within your soul that more money means more joy.
From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold
To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)
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