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deracinates

deracinates verb: pulling up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of deracinate.

Verb

deracinates

  1. Pulling up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
  2. Forcing (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

Also used as

deracinates is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of deracinate.

Questions about deracinates

What does deracinates mean?
Deracinates means pulling up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
What part of speech is deracinates?
Deracinates is a verb.

Words near deracinates in the dictionary

  1. deracialized
  2. deracializes
  3. deracializing
  4. deracinate
  5. deracinated
  6. deracinates
  7. deracinating
  8. deracination
  9. deracinations
  10. deracine
  11. deracines

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