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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

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

2. pull up by or as if by the roots;
- Example: "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
[syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deracinate 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]