Deracinate vs Eradicate - What's the difference?
deracinate | eradicate |
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
* 1602 , Shakespeare,
* 1910 , G.K. Chesterton,
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
(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:
To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
To completely destroy; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to; to extirpate.
As verbs the difference between deracinate and eradicate
is that deracinate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate while eradicate is to pull up by the roots; to uproot.deracinate
English
Verb
(deracinat)- Divert and crack, rend and deracinate ,
- The unity and married calm of states
- Quite from their fixture!
- 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.
- Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated .
eradicate
English
Verb
(eradicat)- Small pox was globally eradicated in 1980
