Lexic.us

Definition of Deracinate

1. Verb. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment. "The war uprooted many people"

2. Verb. Pull up by or as if by the roots. "Uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

Definition of Deracinate

1. v. t. To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Definition of Deracinate

1. Verb. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. ¹

2. Verb. To force people from their homeland to a new or foreign location. ¹

3. Verb. To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deracinate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deracinate

dequervain dislocation deques dequeue dequeued dequeues dequeuing dequity der-brain der-brains deracemization

deracemizations deracemize deracemized deracemizes deracemizing deracinate (current term) deracinated deracinates deracinating deracination

deracinations deracine deracoxib deradelphus deradicalisation deradicalise deradicalised deradicalises deradicalising deradicalization

Literary usage of Deracinate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"While that the coulter rust* That should deracinate sueh savag'ry. lien. V, v, 2. Divert, and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married ..."

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