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Recrudescent vs Deracinate - What's the difference?

recrudescent | deracinate |

As an adjective recrudescent

is breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression.

As a verb deracinate is

to pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

recrudescent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression
  • :This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a new disease altogether.
  • (archaic) growing raw, sore, or painful again

    • Hypernyms

    * recurrent * reemergent

    Related terms

    * recrudescence ----

    deracinate

    English

    Verb

    (deracinat)
  • To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
  • * 1602 , Shakespeare,
    • Divert and crack, rend and deracinate ,
    The unity and married calm of states
    Quite from their fixture!
  • * 1910 , G.K. Chesterton,
    • 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.
  • 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:
    • Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated .