Meanings of deracinate in English

No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.

To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.

It is not too florid to argue that effective machinery to investigate and deracinate corruption is at the heart of a fair and functioning democracy.

He simply nodded, feeling quite deracinated by Toussaint's remark, as if he no longer belonged to any category.

It was frightening, deracinating.

Are we to be a people without a history henceforth - deracinated with a stroke of a pen by a pioneer minister?

When our food is denatured and deracinated in these extenuated supply chains, perhaps we should not be surprised that the species sometimes get mixed up.

Deracinated trees with roots like hydra heads, the bloated carcasses of drowned hogs, and roofless peasant huts were what they found, but no Rabbi Eliezer.