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deracinate

[dih-ras-uh-nayt] / 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

There is as yet no Greek language of philosophy; a long development will bring it forth however; Aristotle will deracinate the last image of Homer, and leave the Greek tongue supersensible.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.

From Journalism for Women A Practical Guide by Arnold Bennett

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 Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Fiction matters more now, in a world increasingly deracinated by technology.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In practice, such cascades of images can prove deracinating.

From Time Magazine Archive




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