deracinate
verb/dɪˈɹæsɪneɪt/
Etymology
PIE word *wréh₂ds First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).
Definitions
To pull up by the roots
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
- Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for deracinate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA