DERACINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deracinate mean? 

• DERACINATE (verb)
  The verb DERACINATE has 2 senses:

1. move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

2. pull up by or as if by the roots

  Familiarity information: DERACINATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERACINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deracinate    ... he / she / it deracinates   
Past simple: deracinated   
Past participle: deracinated   
-ing form: deracinating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deracinate; uproot

Context example:

The war uprooted many people

Hypernyms (to "deracinate" is one way to...):

displace (cause to move, usually with force or pressure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

deracination (to move something from its natural environment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pull up by or as if by the roots

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

deracinate; extirpate; root out; uproot

Context example:

uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

Hypernyms (to "deracinate" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deracinate"):

stub (pull up (weeds) by their roots)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

deracination (the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence)

deracination (to move something from its natural environment)