DERACINATE

uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out

(verb) pull up by or as if by the roots; “uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”

uproot, deracinate

(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; “The war uprooted many people”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)

To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.

(transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

Anagrams

• ecardinate

Source: Wiktionary


De*rac"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating.] Etym: [F. déraciner; pref. dé- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.]

Definition: To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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