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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To pull out by the roots; uproot.
  2. v. To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pluck up by the roots; eradicate; extirpate: as, to deracinate hair.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
  2. v. To force people from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
  3. v. To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pull up by or as if by the roots
  2. v. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

Etymologies

  1. French déraciner, from racine ("root"), from Latin radix, radicis ("root"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From French déraciner, from Old French desraciner : des-, de- + racine, root (from Late Latin rādīcīna, from Latin rādīx, rādīc-; see wrād- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “He felt compelled to surgically deracinate himself, altering his nose, his lips, his hair.”

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  • “We fully support Manuel in his endeavour to deracinate and stop the creeping ludicrous commissions claimed by the PSL executives," CWU spokesman Mfanafuthi Sithebe said.”

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  • “No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.”

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  • “To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.”

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  • “There is as yet no Greek language of philosophy; a long development will bring it forth however; Aristotle will deracinate the last image of Homer, and leave the Greek tongue supersensible.”

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  • “To defend society?' asked Somerset; 'to stake one's life for others? to deracinate occult and powerful evil?”

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  • “And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others.”

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  • john “St. Kilda, deracinated and depopulated, was finally evacuated in the early 1930s.�?

    The New York Times, Inching Along the Edge of the World, by Will Self, October 23, 2008 Oct 25, 2008

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