deracinate
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Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
To collect the artistic riches from the region and put them on display in the Sassi would deracinate them, he argues.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
You cannot deracinate that wide-rooted dogma within your soul that more money means more joy.
From The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett
To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
Frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
That production, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, seems completely deracinated on a set by Frederica Nascimento that registers no Brooklyn ZIP Code or locatable address anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Though Semprún rebuilt his life in France as a deracinated exile forced to invent himself from scratch, I suggest that his political and literary ambitions were forged in his childhood in Spain.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2018
This “Yerma” takes place in a London of a willfully progressive, deracinated middle class, which long ago discarded traditional notions of family.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018
Raskolnikov, the deracinated former law student in Crime and Punishment, is the psychopath of instrumental rationality, who can work up evidently logical reasons to do anything he desires.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2015
Our deracinated feet stomped along in the mud.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Maggie could have been played by one those American actors whose English accent consists merely of deracinating it and denuding it of any character.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2011
It might be exasperating and deracinating, but it's also true.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
In practice, such cascades of images can prove deracinating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Constant change, for example, has had a deracinating effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
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