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• n  to move something from its natural environment
• n  the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence

• More and more of us belong to a new community that could be called the deracination state, the spiritual home of many in the new century (whose actual location may be in such .
• School and college began the long process of deracination.
• Until recently, growing up gay meant awaiting a lifetime of secrecy--furtive encounters, darkened bar windows, crushing deracination.

• displacement
• extirpation
• excision

Quotes

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• Niall Ferguson in New Statesman
  But Ferguson sees what they mean: "A better expression of human deracination than these disembodied obiter dicta would be rather hard to imagine . . ."