Search results
- Dictionaryde·rac·in·ate/dəˈrasnˌāt/
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
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. Deracinate comes from the Old French desraciner , "pull up by the roots."
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.
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 out by the roots or to displace from one's native or accustomed environment. See the origin, synonyms, and usage of this word in different contexts and dictionaries.
