deracination
/dɪˌræsɪˈneɪʃən/
noun
- The act of removing someone from their native or familiar environment, culture, or home; uprooting.
- The war caused the deracination of entire villages, forcing families to flee to foreign lands.
- Many immigrants experience a sense of deracination as they adapt to a new country and language.
- The novel explores the emotional pain of deracination after the protagonist is sent to a boarding school far from home.
- The process of pulling something up by the roots; literal uprooting.
- Farmers use special tools to assist in the deracination of invasive weeds.
- The deracination of the old fence posts was hard work, but necessary for the new garden.
- The storm caused the deracination of several large oak trees in the park.
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