The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deracinate \De*rac"i*nate\ (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deracinated (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Deracinating (d[-e]*r[a^]s"[i^]*n[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [F. d['e]raciner; pref. d['e]- (L. dis) + racine root, fr. an assumed LL. radicina, fr. L. radix, radicis, root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.]
While that the colter rusts
That should deracinate such savagery.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deracinate)
Usage examples of "deracinated".
Bones whitening beneath a glaring sun, a fiery scalpel that cut away the last of the deracinated flesh upon the fingerlike spread of ribs and rounded skull.
They finally reach Las Vegas, the closest this deracinated world gets to an Emerald City, where an enigmatic tycoon named Mr.
The line of division is between deracinated intellectuals like Palme Dutt and trade-union men like Pollitt and Hannington.
Too much beauty for my deracinated spirit, too much grandeur and immensity.
Jews, deracinated liberals, technocrats and aliens to double the population of the capital city within a few years.
Orientals who would not be deracinated, who would continue to evolve according to their own norms, who would remain penetrated by family traditions, and who would thus form a link between us and the mass of natives?
The sale of his house and of his business had left them well off: the hotel suited them, or rather hotel life suited them, was appropriate to a deracinated existence which could surely be only temporary.
The other residents of the home are equally deracinated, abandoned by their families, living joylessly and without hope.
Immeasurable, because in the great exemplars the bullshit is so artfully mingled and intertwined with actual received wisdom that its essential nature is deracinated and pasteurized.