Search results
- Dictionaryderacinate/dɪˈrasɪneɪt/
verb
- 1. uproot (someone) from their natural geographical, social, or cultural environment: "a predatory mining company that threatens to devour the land and deracinate the locals"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
People also ask
Where does the word deracinate come from?
What happens when you deracinate people?
What does Racine mean?
Can You deracinate Lowell?
Deracinate means to uproot or remove from a native environment or culture, especially racially or ethnically. Learn the origin, usage, and examples of this verb and its related words.
Deracinate definition: to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.. See examples of DERACINATE used in a sentence.
to make someone or something lose their connection to any particular place, background, way of life, etc.: She sympathized with refugees because they were, like her, deracinated people. In collecting the texts, you have deracinated them from their context: the magazines, fanzines, and social consciousness of the time. Fewer examples.
To deracinate someone is to force them to move away from their native home to a new, unfamiliar place. Civil wars often deracinate large segments of a country's population.
Definition of deracinate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Deracinate means to pull up by or as if by the roots, or to remove from a natural environment. It can also mean to separate from one's roots or ties, especially ethnic or national ones.
Deracinate means to pull up by or as by the roots; uproot; eradicate. It can also mean to separate from one's roots or ties, esp. ethnic or national ones, or to force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
