Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To abolish or eliminate segregation in.
- v. To open (a school or workplace, for example) to members of all races or ethnic groups, especially by force of law.
- v. To become open to members of all races or ethnic groups.
Wiktionary
- v. To remove segregation by allowing access to something by people of all races or ethnicity
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred).
WordNet 3.0
- v. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
Examples
“Well, I wanted to kind of ask specifically about the time that, that the public schools began to desegregate, which is about 1965,”
“He discusses the combined effects of wealth disparities, residential segregation, racial anxieties, and the politics of both challenge and accommodation that converged to create a school system that was among the first in the nation to voluntarily "desegregate" following the 1954 Brown decision while also coming under repeated scrutiny from the U.S.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Maya Rockeymoore: Zero-Basing Public Schools, Free-Basing Education Policy
“Where are the white children supposed to come from to "desegregate" either the CPS neighborhood schools or the charter schools.”
“Board of Education, that its voters amended their constitution to allow school districts to close all schools to avoid having to desegregate them.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
““Color blindness” sounds noble, but there is every difference in the world between using race to discriminate and using race to desegregate.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“Some school systems attempted to close public schools rather than desegregate.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“The 1970s were a particularly critical time in the battle to desegregate American schools.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“An interdistrict remedy could help to desegregate both the Chicago public schools and the nearby suburban schools.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“In other words, it sought to end efforts by the federal government and the federal courts to desegregate the schools.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
“This was done to allow Alabama public schools to close rather than desegregate.”
Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘desegregate’.
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Words with 'greg' in them
Some of these are from the Latin root 'grex', herd.
gregorian, gregarious, egregious, congregation, aggregate, desegregate, segregate, congregate, aggregometer, beaugregory, engregge, gregarine and 3 more...
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GRE Reference
A list of words unfamiliar to me that I have repeatedly encountered in GRE question sets.
parochial, clique, salacious, aegis, ostracize, conceited, sacrilegious, inane, serendipity, gourmand, polemic, tenuous and 138 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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To Learn & Use
extrapolate, Abderian, obstreperous, iconoclasm, tapsalteerie, agelast, ignimbrite, Abecedarian, Abligurition, Accubation, Aeolist, agerasia and 123 more...
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Word Power by Norman Lewis
A list of words I discovered while reading Norman Lewis' fabulous book/tool which makes light of all heavy handed plays on etymology.
dilettante, lascivious, salacious, convivial, vivisection, inveterate, gourmand, ennui, indefatigable, bourgeois, pejorative, endemic and 10 more...
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