De-răç'i-nāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DERACINATED; p. pr. & vb. n. DERACINATING.] [Fr. déraciner, from racine, root, Pr. racina, Lat. as if radicina, from radix, radicis, root.] To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [Rare.]

The colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.