1. uprooted; displaced from one's native country or culture; lacking roots or connection to a place or tradition
Usage: often used in literary or formal contexts; French origin; sometimes seen as 'deracinated'

1. to uproot; to remove or displace from one's native country, culture, or environment
Usage: transitive verb; literary or formal usage

Examples

• The war left many families deracine, scattered across different continents.
• Immigrants often feel deracine until they establish new roots in their adopted country.
• The novel explores the deracine experience of characters caught between two cultures.
• Colonialism served to deracine indigenous populations from their ancestral lands.
• She felt deracine after moving away from her hometown at such a young age.
• The policy threatened to deracine entire communities from their traditional territories.