segregate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate.
to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- Antonyms:
- integrate
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to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
verb (used without object)
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to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
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to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
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Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
noun
verb
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to set or be set apart from others or from the main group
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(tr) to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)
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genetics metallurgy to undergo or cause to undergo segregation
Other Word Forms
- nonsegregable adjective
- nonsegregative adjective
- resegregate verb
- segregable adjective
- segregative adjective
- segregator noun
- unsegregable adjective
- unsegregating adjective
- unsegregative adjective
Etymology
Origin of segregate
1400–50 in sense “segregated”; 1535–45 as transitive v.; late Middle English segregat < Latin sēgregātus (past participle of sēgregāre to part from the flock), equivalent to sē- se- + greg- (stem of grex flock) + -ātus -ate 1; gregarious
Example Sentences
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The Tory leader's spokesman said Timothy's comments were based on footage showing segregated males praying at the event.
From BBC
"Sinners," the tale of gangster twins returning home to a supernatural and segregated Deep South in the 1930s, has already made Academy Awards history with its whopping 16 nominations.
From Barron's
He had pulled a thread attached to a flat, rectangular piece of waffle-like material segregated into dozens of wonky-looking square tiles.
From BBC
“Kin,” set in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s, focuses on the crucial importance of mothering, sisterhood and close female friendships in young women’s lives.
A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.
From Barron's
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