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

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 Snider, Denton Jaques

To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.

From Modern American Prose Selections by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)

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