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Segregate vs Desegregate - What's the difference?

segregate | desegregate |

As verbs the difference between segregate and desegregate

is that segregate is to separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart while desegregate is to remove segregation by allowing access to something by people of all races or ethnicity.

As an adjective segregate

is separate; select.

segregate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Separate; select.
  • (botany) Separated from others of the same kind.
  • Verb

    (segregat)
  • To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
  • Synonyms

    * isolate * separate * sequester * sunder out

    Antonyms

    * aggregate

    Anagrams

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    desegregate

    English

    Verb

    (desegregat)
  • To remove segregation by allowing access to something by people of all races or ethnicity