deracinate (der as in at)

t.; pret. and pp. deracinated, ppr. deracinating. [ The coulter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. Disemboweling mountains and deracinating pines! The Century , XXVII. 188. [NL., δέραιον , α In ornith ., the root of II. in trans. To run off the track or rails. The train, near Lake Ivanhoe, derailed on Tuesday. Times (London), Sept. 15, 1887, quoted in N. and Q., derailment (dē-rāl'ment), n. [ derail + -ment .] as a railroad-train or -car. [7th ser., IV. 365. Preventing them [the cars] from separating in case of derailment . Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 307. deraint, derainmentt. See deraign1, deraignment1. derange (dē-rānj'), v. t.; pret. and pp. deranged, ppr. deranging. [ The republic of regicide has actually conquered the finest parts of Europe; has distre ed, disunited, de ranged , broke to pieces all the rest. Burke, A Regicide Peace. Time and tide are strangely changed, Men and manners much deranged . Emerson, The Initial Love. Self-regulating as is a currency when let alone, laws cannot improve its arrangements, although they may, and continually do, derange them. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 434. IMG:content-2422.png:[blocks in formation] So have we found weddings celebrated with an outburst of triumph and deray at which the elderly shook their heads. Carlyle.