desegregate
verb (used with object)
to eliminate racial segregation in.
desegregated
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past participleof desegregate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof desegregate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
desegregateverb (used with object)to eliminate racial segregation in.
Example Sentences
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As a young man, he attended a newly desegregated high school in Terre Haute and was friendly with students of all colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Supreme Court desegregated the nation’s schools in Brown v.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2024
Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools in law if not in life, he realized, he says, that “there was a whole cultural and social order based upon differences between white and Black people.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Near the entrance, a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln commemorates the founding of the desegregated cemetery in the late ’20s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
They had desegregated Durham’s tennis courts in this manner a few months earlier.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
