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deracinate
[ dih-ras-uh-neyt ]
verb (used with object)
deracinated, deracinating.
- to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
- to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment.
deracinate
/ ɪˈæɪˌԱɪ /
verb
- to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- to remove, as from a natural environment
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Derived Forms
- ˌˈԲپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ·i·ԲtDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deracinate1
First recorded in 1590–1600; from French é(), equivalent to é- + -raciner, verbal derivative of racine “root,” from Late Latin īīԲ for Latin ī-, stem of ī + -ate; dis- 1, root 1( def ), -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deracinate1
C16: from Old French desraciner, from des- dis- 1+ racine root, from Late Latin īīԲ a little root, from Latin ī a root
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Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
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Fiction matters more now, in a world increasingly deracinated by technology.
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Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.
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“Our education effectively deracinated us,” she writes, “suspending us in a kind of colonial non-space designed to ensure that we did not identify too closely with any place.”
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Like nearly everyone in this novel, she leads a globalized, deracinated life.
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