1. to uproot or remove from one’s native environment or culture
Usage: formal; third person singular present tense

Examples

• The rapid urbanization deracinates rural families from their traditional way of life.
• War often deracinates entire populations, forcing them to flee their homeland.
• Modern globalization sometimes deracinates local customs and practices.
• The company’s relocation policy deracinates employees from their communities.
• Immigration can deracinate individuals from their cultural roots.
• Economic migration deracinates workers from their ancestral villages.