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deracinate
verb[ Tusually passive ]
formaluk /dɪˈræs.ɪ.neɪt/ us /diːˈræs.ə.neɪt/
to make someone or something lose their connection to any particular place, background, way of life, etc.:
She sympathized with refugees because they were, like her, deracinated people.
In collecting the texts, you have deracinated them from their context: the magazines, fanzines, and social consciousness of the time.
Without specifying locations, the scenes of the film are deracinated.
He ended up in the west of Ireland, surrounded by mackerel fishermen and deracinated British rock stars.
He was brilliant at giving the impression of being deracinated and out of place in the role, a fish out of water.
Denatured and deracinated, the chicken nugget is a symbol of the way we eat now.
Some argued that the agrarian south should resist the deracinating effects of northern industrialism.
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