Deracinate

Quick meaning: Deracinate is a verb meaning To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

Example Sentences

Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!

Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.

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.

Word Forms

• deracinates
• deracinating
• deracinated

Synonyms for deracinate

Depending on context, synonyms include extirpate, displace, uproot, pull up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uproot, extirpate, displace, pull up, eradicate, disroot.

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