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Meaning of DERACINATE

Pronunciation:  di'rasu`neyt

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [v]  pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
  2. [v]  move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
 

DERACINATE is a 10 letter word that starts with D.

 

 Synonyms: displace, extirpate, root out, uproot, uproot
 
 See Also: displace, move, place

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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