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Deracinate

//dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    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!"

  2. 2
    pull up by or as if by the roots wordnet
  3. 3
    To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
  4. 4
    move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment wordnet
  5. 5
    To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms. intransitive, transitive

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

Etymology

PIE word *wréh₂ds First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).

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