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pull up by or as if by the roots
uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden -
move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
The war uprooted many people
How To Use deracinate In A Sentence
- It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring.
- Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
- We have polluted, consumed, caged, corrupted, deracinated, tortured, and tormented just about every form of creation on Earth.
- We are deracinated Chinese, stripped of our regionalism, belonging neither here nor there.
- Mr. Buruma is repelled by "deracinated," he informs us, because it reminds him (and perhaps only him) that "accusing Jews of rootlessness is an old anti-Semitic ploy. Anne Frank's Afterlife
- Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
- Though he refuses to deracinate himself he does valorize pioneer mythology over racial realities in the West.
- These questions haunt a society that is deracinated, fragmented, where the social consensus is constantly unsettled - where you escape the security of the beliefs you were raised in before you even have time to fully assimilate them.
- Soon bored with the rash of glass and steel slabs, deracinated architects could only turn to differences of shape and texture to stand for advancement.
- This tale of two nightclub hostesses (played by Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie) unfolds in a deracinated Britain where moral certainties are being eroded by affluence.
