VERB | social | deracinate, uproot | move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment |
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contact | deracinate, uproot, extirpate, root out | pull up by or as if by the roots |
Meaning | Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
Synonym | uproot | |
Broader | displace | Cause to move, usually with force or pressure |
Spanish | desarraigar | |
Catalan | desarrelar | |
Nouns | deracination | to move something from its natural environment |
Meaning | pull up by or as if by the roots. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | uproot, extirpate, root out | |
Narrower | stub | Pull up (weeds) by their roots |
Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
Spanish | desarraigar, erradicar, extirpar, extraer, sacar | |
Catalan | desarrelar, extirpar, extraure, extreure, treure | |
Nouns | deracination | the act of pulling ... / pulling up or out |
deracination | to move something from its natural environment |
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