Definition of "deracinating" [deracinating]

• Present participle of deracinate. Pulling up by the roots. (verb)

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• "This obsession with List-O-Chronic shows providing a top 100 of this and that is deracinating our culture, dammit!"
• "Ataturk's name is invoked during prayers as the saviour of Sufism from the deracinating effect of politics."
• "The services were “accessible” but sterile and deracinating, and now Hebrew is back in the Reform liturgy."