adjective
- uprooted; displaced from one's native country or culture; lacking roots or connection to a place or tradition
Usage: often used in literary or formal contexts; French origin; sometimes seen as 'deracinated'
verb
- to uproot; to remove or displace from one's native country, culture, or environment
Usage: transitive verb; literary or formal usage
Examples
- The war left many families deracine, scattered across different continents.
- Immigrants often feel deracine until they establish new roots in their adopted country.
- The novel explores the deracine experience of characters caught between two cultures.
- Colonialism served to deracine indigenous populations from their ancestral lands.
- She felt deracine after moving away from her hometown at such a young age.
- The policy threatened to deracine entire communities from their traditional territories.