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deracinate

[dih-ras-uh-neyt] / dɪˈræs əˌneɪt /




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Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 2023

To collect the artistic riches from the region and put them on display in the Sassi would deracinate them, he argues.

From The New Yorker Apr. 20, 2015

Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

But the gale that will deracinate Cambridge has not yet begun to rage....

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold

You cannot deracinate that wide-rooted dogma within your soul that more money means more joy.

From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold

That production, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, seems completely deracinated on a set by Frederica Nascimento that registers no Brooklyn ZIP Code or locatable address anywhere.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

Though Semprún rebuilt his life in France as a deracinated exile forced to invent himself from scratch, I suggest that his political and literary ambitions were forged in his childhood in Spain.

From Salon Jul. 1, 2018

This “Yerma” takes place in a London of a willfully progressive, deracinated middle class, which long ago discarded traditional notions of family.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2018

Raskolnikov, the deracinated former law student in Crime and Punishment, is the psychopath of instrumental rationality, who can work up evidently logical reasons to do anything he desires.

From The Guardian Jul. 24, 2015

Our deracinated feet stomped along in the mud.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Maggie could have been played by one those American actors whose English accent consists merely of deracinating it and denuding it of any character.

From The Guardian Feb. 8, 2011

It might be exasperating and deracinating, but it's also true.

From The Guardian Apr. 2, 2010

In practice, such cascades of images can prove deracinating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Constant change, for example, has had a deracinating effect.

From Time Magazine Archive




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