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Deracinate

Deracinate Meaning & Definition
Deracinate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Deracinate?

[v] pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
[v] move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Deracinate: displace | extirpate | root out | uproot | uproot

Related Terms | Find terms related to Deracinate:

See Also | displace | move | place

Deracinate In Webster's Dictionary

\De*rac"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deracinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deracinating}.] [F. d['e]raciner; pref. d['e]- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. --Shak.

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