单词 | deracinate |
释义 | deracinatev. a. transitive. To pluck or tear up by the roots; to uproot, eradicate, exterminate. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > root out or up louka1000 morec1325 roota1387 unroot?a1425 stubc1450 roota1500 rid?1529 root-walt?1530 subplant1547 supplant1549 root?1550 grub1558 eradicate1564 to stump up1599 deracinate1609 uproot1695 aberuncate1731 eracinate1739 rootle1795 disroot1800 piggle1847 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 99 What raging of the sea, shaking of earth?.. Rend and deracinate, The vnitie and married calme of states. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 47 The Culter rusts, That should deracinate such Sauagery. View more context for this quotation 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. i. xiv. 26 But neither Arms, nor Victories..[were] able to deracinate or root out this Doctine [sic]. 1788 London Mag. 477 To deracinate and annihilate the whole system of moral, historical and revealed asseverations. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 167 Disembowelling mountains and deracinating pines! b. transferred. ΚΠ 1843 E. Jones Stud. Sensation & Event 167 Chill every river into stagnancy, Deracinate the fruitful earth of growth. Derivatives deraciˈnation n. eradication, extirpation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation excidion1490 excision1490 extirpation1526 extirping1535 eradication1548 outrooting1562 eradicatinga1660 extirpating1670 deracinationc1800 liquidation1925 c1800 tr. C. S. Sonnini Trav. Upper & Lower Egypt I. 227 Nothing can resist an extreme desire to appear beautiful. The women submit to a painful operation—to a violent and total deracination. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1609 |
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