deracinate

Calque of French déraciner, from racine (“root”), from Latin radix, radicis (“root”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹæsɪnaɪt/

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deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)

1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
   • 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

     Divert and crack, rend and deracinate,

     The unity and married calm of states

     Quite from their fixture!

   • 1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 1.7

     The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.

2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
   • 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328:

     Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.