verb
- to uproot or remove from one’s native environment or culture
Usage: formal; third person singular present tense
Examples
- The rapid urbanization deracinates rural families from their traditional way of life.
- War often deracinates entire populations, forcing them to flee their homeland.
- Modern globalization sometimes deracinates local customs and practices.
- The company’s relocation policy deracinates employees from their communities.
- Immigration can deracinate individuals from their cultural roots.
- Economic migration deracinates workers from their ancestral villages.