What does deracinate mean?
Deracinate means To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate..
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/dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt/ · verb
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.
Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
Use deracinate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deracinate means To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate..
Common synonyms include extirpate, displace, uproot, root out.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
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