deracinate
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
— Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
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To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
— Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
词源
PIE word
*wréh₂ds
First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).
*wréh₂ds
First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).
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