Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deracinate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deracinate
v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
[syn: {displace}, {uproot}]
2: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: {uproot}, {extirpate}, {root
out}]
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