deracinate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deracinate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deracinate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deracinate v move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" Synonym(s): uproot, deracinate pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" Synonym(s): uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deracinate \Derac"inate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deracinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deracinating}.] [F. d[82]raciner; pref. d[82]- (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.