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deracinate
[dih-ras-uh-neyt]
verb (used with object)
to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment.
deracinate
/ ɪˈæɪˌԱɪ /
verb
to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
to remove, as from a natural environment
Other 51Թ Forms
- deracination noun
- ˌˈԲپDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deracinate1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deracinate1
Example Sentences
Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
Fiction matters more now, in a world increasingly deracinated by technology.
Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.
“Our education effectively deracinated us,” she writes, “suspending us in a kind of colonial non-space designed to ensure that we did not identify too closely with any place.”
Like nearly everyone in this novel, she leads a globalized, deracinated life.
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