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

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

From Journalism for Women A Practical Guide by Bennett, Arnold

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

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