Definition of Deracination

1. Noun. To move something from its natural environment.

Exact synonyms: Displacement
Generic synonyms: Movement
Derivative terms: Deracinate, Deracinate

2. Noun. The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.
Exact synonyms: Excision, Extirpation
Generic synonyms: Pull, Pulling
Derivative terms: Deracinate, Extirpate, Extirpate

Definition of Deracination

1. n. The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.

Definition of Deracination

1. Noun. The act of deracinating; uprooting ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deracination

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deracination

dequeues
dequeuing
dequity
der-brain
der-brains
deracemization
deracemizations
deracemize
deracemized
deracemizes
deracemizing
deracinate
deracinated
deracinates
deracinating
deracination (current term)
deracinations
deracine
deracoxib
deradelphus
deradicalisation
deradicalise
deradicalised
deradicalises
deradicalising
deradicalization
deradicalize
deradicalized
deradicalizes
deradicalizing

Literary usage of Deracination

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

1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... has written a number of stories concerning the deracination of the later Jewish-Russian intellectuals who have become a cross between complacent ..."

2. Retrospections of an Active Life by John Bigelow (1909)
"I foresee no other agencies at work that are likely to effect so rapid a deracination of those feudal prejudices from which the people are suffering. ..."

3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"While it appears true that he terrorized Greece and thrilled Rome with his schemes to kill off the rich, and aimed at the deracination of the ephori who, ..."

4. The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism by Carl Snyder (1907)
"But if it was a mental wrench to try to think of a whirling earth, it was sheer deracination to propose an earth that not only whirled, but in whirling ..."

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