deracinate
English
Etymology
Calque of French déraciner, from racine (“root”), from Latin radix, radicis (“root”).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
- 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
- Divert and crack, rend and deracinate,
- The unity and married calm of states
- Quite from their fixture!
- 1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 1.7
- 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.
- 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
- (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328:
- Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
- 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328:
Translations
pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
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force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms
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