'Deracinate' definitions:

Definition of 'deracinate'

(from WordNet)
verb
Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate]
verb
Pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]

Definition of 'Deracinate'

From: GCIDE
  • Deracinate \De*rac"i*nate\ (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [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.] [1913 Webster]
  • While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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