| VERB | social | deracinate, uproot | move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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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