Definitions for: Deracinate


[v] pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
[v] move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"



Webster (1913) Definition: De*rac"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating.] [F. d['e]raciner; pref.
d['e]- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina,
fr. L. radix, radicis, root.]
To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.]

While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such
savagery. --Shak.

Synonyms: displace, extirpate, root out, uproot, uproot

See Also: displace, move, place

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