| Pronunciation: | | di'rasu`neyt
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| Matching Terms: | | deracination
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- [v] pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
- [v] move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
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| | Synonyms: | | displace, extirpate, root out, uproot, uproot |
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| | See Also: | | displace, move, place |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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