verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of deracine; to uproot or remove from one's native country or environment
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- War deracines entire populations from their ancestral lands.
- The policy deracines indigenous communities without regard for their cultural ties.
- Economic hardship deracines families who must migrate to find work.
- Colonization deracines native peoples from their traditional territories.
- The revolution deracines the old aristocratic order from power.