verb
Meaning 1
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
deracinate
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Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
pull up by or as if by the roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproot, extirpate, root out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: stub
verb
Meaning 5
move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The war uprooted many people
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uproot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: displace
History
Etymology
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”).
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: ontwortelen — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Dutch: deracineren — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Estonian: juurima — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- French: déraciner — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- German: entwurzeln — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Greek: ξεριζώνω (xerizóno) — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Italian: sradicare — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Italian: estirpare — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Macedonian: о́ткорне (ótkorne) — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Portuguese: desenraizar — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Portuguese: extirpar — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Spanish: desraizar — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Spanish: desenraizar — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Swedish: rycka upp med rötterna — pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate
- Dutch: onthemen — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
- French: déraciner — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
- German: entwurzeln — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
- Greek: ξεριζώνω (xerizóno) — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
- Italian: sradicare — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location
- Spanish: desarraigar — force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location