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Deracinate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DERACINATE, v.t. To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate]
2: 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]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-nated; -nating) Etymology: Middle French desraciner, from des- de- + racine root, from Late Latin radicina, from Latin radic-, radix — more at root Date: 1599 1. uproot 2. to remove or separate from a native environment or culture; especially to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from • deracination noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. literary 1 tear up by the roots. 2 obliterate, expunge. Derivatives: deracination n. Etymology: F déraciner (as DE-, racine f. LL radicina dimin. of radix root)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deracinate 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.