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Verb (used with object)

[ dih-ras-uh-neyt ]

1. to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate.

2. to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment.

Origin:
First recorded in 1590–1600; from French déracin(er), equivalent to dé- + -raciner, verbal derivative of racine “root,” from Late Latin rādīcīna for Latin rādīc-, stem of rādīx + -ate

“His deracination begins with the education that sends him to Paris, there to lose his originality.”
- James Huneker, Egoists