deracinate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
    uproot.
    • The war uprooted many people
  2. verb pull up by or as if by the roots
    uproot; extirpate; root out.
    • uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden

WordNet

De*rac"i*nate transitive verb
Etymology
F. déraciner; pref. dé- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Deracinated ; present participle & verbal noun Deracinating
Definitions
  1. To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. R.
    While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

Webster 1913