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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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