deracinate

Verb

deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)

1. 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!c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
   • The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.1910, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “chapter 1.7”, in What’s Wrong with the World, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC
2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. (intransitive, transitive) 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.1986, Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 328