deracinate

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

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

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

“Our education effectively deracinated us,” she writes, “suspending us in a kind of colonial non-space designed to ensure that we did not identify too closely with any place.”

Like nearly everyone in this novel, she leads a globalized, deracinated life.