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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
desegregate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ School officials are still working to desegregate the district.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dozens, however, soon became effective leaders in the struggle to desegregate the Boston schools.
▪ In fact open admissions was often posed as the means to desegregate higher education.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
desegregate

desegregate \de*seg"re*gate\ v. t. to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
desegregate

1948, back-formation from desegregation. Related: Desegregated; desegregating.

Wiktionary
desegregate

vb. (cx transitive English) To the end segregation of (something).

WordNet
desegregate

v. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" [syn: integrate, mix] [ant: segregate]

Usage examples of "desegregate".

At the little Oxford airport, Ross Barnett was asked by a reporter if he would desegregate the university.

Here we have it, seven billion dollars for public highway construction, desegregated but quota-limited schools, dams, factories, forest conservation, and sure, preferential treatment so Negroes do the work involved and receive the benefits.

Higher salaries for teachers who go into slum areas or work in desegregated schools, and some free tutoring programs and scholarships.

But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half.

Board of Education of Topeka, which dictated that schools be desegregated, many black CPS students continued to attend schools that were nearly all-black.

He could see they ran a desegregated joint—a lot of places in California seemed to these days.

Julian had pleaded to enter the famous university in South Carolina which had been desegregated by force—five Negroes had then been attending it, and they did so under guard—arguing that he wanted to get used to the equality he deserved and arguing that he had every right to benefit from the university’s renowned School of Law.

Officially, like all military installations since 1951, this is a desegregated base, entirely so.

He was blunt and said that in six weeks the Ford County school system would open and be fully desegregated.