Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pull out by the roots; uproot.
- transitive verb To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pluck up by the roots; eradicate; extirpate: as, to
deracinate hair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To pull up by the roots; to
uproot ; toextirpate . - verb To force people from their
homeland to a new or foreign location. - verb To
liberate or be liberated from aculture or itsnorms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pull up by or as if by the roots
- verb move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Matt Yglesias makes some telling points, but we'll merely linger on the word deracinate for a moment.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future? RJ 2011
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Matt Yglesias makes some telling points, but we'll merely linger on the word deracinate for a moment.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future? RJ 2011
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(F) Creating a mandatory “America Serves” community-service program to indoctrinate and deracinate young European Americans
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(F) Creating a mandatory “America Serves” community-service program to indoctrinate and deracinate young European Americans
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(F) Creating a mandatory “America Serves” community-service program to indoctrinate and deracinate young European Americans
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He felt compelled to surgically deracinate himself, altering his nose, his lips, his hair.
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"We fully support Manuel in his endeavour to deracinate and stop the creeping ludicrous commissions claimed by the PSL executives," CWU spokesman Mfanafuthi Sithebe said.
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But the gale that will deracinate Cambridge has not yet begun to rage ....
Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899
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No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.
Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Arnold Bennett 1899
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To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.
john commented on the word deracinate
“St. Kilda, deracinated and depopulated, was finally evacuated in the early 1930s.�?
The New York Times, Inching Along the Edge of the World, by Will Self, October 23, 2008
October 25, 2008
stuartmathergibson commented on the word deracinate
deracinate
to uproot; take out of one's native environment
April 27, 2022