deracinate

Example Sentences

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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

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 Shakespeare, William

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 Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)

What raging of the sea, shaking of the earth, Commotion of the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!

From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)