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v. - Pull up by or as if by the roots; Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment.

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  • He felt compelled to surgically deracinate himself, altering his nose, his lips, his hair.
  • (F) Creating a mandatory “America Serves” community-service program to indoctrinate and deracinate young European Americans
  • "We fully support Manuel in his endeavour to deracinate and stop the creeping ludicrous commissions claimed by the PSL executives," CWU spokesman Mfanafuthi Sithebe said.
  • No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.
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