deracinate

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt/
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/dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt/ · /dɪˈɹæsəneɪt/

Definition of deracinate

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
    “Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!”
    “The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.”
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verb

  1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
    “Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!”
    “The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.”
  2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
  3. (intransitive, transitive)To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
    “Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

PIE word *wréh₂ds First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).

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