deracinate
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Definition of deracinate
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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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
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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.”
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
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(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.”
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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”).
Words you can make from deracinate
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5 words8-letter words
19 words- ACERATED 11 pts
- CANTERED 11 pts
- CRENATED 11 pts
- DECANTER 11 pts
- DERACINE 11 pts
- DICENTRA 11 pts
- RADIANCE 11 pts
- RADICATE 11 pts
- RECANTED 11 pts
- ACIERATE 10 pts
- CARINATE 10 pts
- CENTIARE 10 pts
- CRANIATE 10 pts
- CREATINE 10 pts
- INCREATE 10 pts
- ITERANCE 10 pts
- DETAINER 9 pts
- ERADIATE 9 pts
- RETAINED 9 pts
7-letter words
47 words- ANTACID 10 pts
- CAIRNED 10 pts
- CARDIAE 10 pts
- CATERED 10 pts
- CENTRED 10 pts
- CERATED 10 pts
- CREATED 10 pts
- CREDENT 10 pts
- DANCIER 10 pts
- DECIARE 10 pts
- DRACENA 10 pts
- ENACTED 10 pts
- ENTICED 10 pts
- REACTED 10 pts
- RECANED 10 pts
- RECITED 10 pts
- TIERCED 10 pts
- TRANCED 10 pts
- ACARINE 9 pts
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- CATENAE 9 pts
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- CREATIN 9 pts
- CRENATE 9 pts
- ENTERIC 9 pts
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- REENACT 9 pts
- TACRINE 9 pts
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- RADIATE 8 pts
- TIARAED 8 pts
- TRAINED 8 pts
- ARENITE 7 pts
- RETINAE 7 pts
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6-letter words
113 words- ACARID 9 pts
- ACEDIA 9 pts
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- CRANIA 8 pts
- CREATE 8 pts
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- AEDINE 7 pts
- AERIED 7 pts
- AIRTED 7 pts
- ANTEED 7 pts
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- DEARIE 7 pts
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- NEREID 7 pts
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- RENTED 7 pts
- RETIED 7 pts
- RIDENT 7 pts
- TEARED 7 pts
- TENDER 7 pts
- TIERED 7 pts
- TINDER 7 pts
- TIRADE 7 pts
- TRINED 7 pts
- AERATE 6 pts
- ANTIAR 6 pts
- ENTERA 6 pts
- ENTIRE 6 pts
- NEATER 6 pts
- RATINE 6 pts
- RETAIN 6 pts
- RETINA 6 pts
- RETINE 6 pts
- TAENIA 6 pts
- TENIAE 6 pts
- TRIENE 6 pts
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