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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
deracinate
deracinate
(
third-person singular simple present
deracinates
,
present participle
deracinating
,
simple past and past participle
deracinated
)
To pull up by the roots; to
uproot
; to
extirpate
.
To force people from their
homeland
to a new or foreign location.
To
liberate
or be liberated from a
culture
or its
norms
.
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