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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
deracinate . Pulls up by the roots.
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The "sensation of taking root" disgusts him and makes him think of a malignant polyp; he deracinates himself by carefully standing aside from whatever language he happens to be using, like an alien intrigued and mystified by the dialect of the tribe.
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