Definitions for deracinate

deracinate de·rac·i·nate

Spelling: [dih-ras-uh-neyt]
IPA: /dɪˈræs əˌneɪt/

Deracinate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 730 anagrams from letters in deracinate (aacdeeinrt).

Definitions for deracinate

verb (used with object)

  1. to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.
  2. to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment.

Origin of deracinate

1590-1600; French déracin(er) (equivalent to dé- dis-1 + -raciner, verbal derivative of racine root Late Latin rādīcīna for Latin rādīc-, stem of rādīx) + <

Examples for deracinate

You cannot deracinate that wide-rooted dogma within your soul that more money means more joy.

Och, and the girls whose poor hearts you deracinate, Whirl and bewilder and flutter and fascinate!

To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.

No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.

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