deracinate

Example Sentences

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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

Frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

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

Lastly the close prospect of the resistless Allied Western offensive which would deracinate Prussian militarism was uplifting men's minds.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold