deracinate
verb·/dɪˈræs.ɪ.neɪt/
Uproot completely, tear out by the roots. The uprooting can be literal, from soil, or figurative, from a culture, language, or sense of belonging. What matters is the severance: the loss is not of location but of rootedness itself.
War deracinated the village, scattering families who carried their customs like seedlings in their pockets.
Etymology
From Latin dērācināre, from de- “down, away” + rādīx “root.” The word keeps the violence of the action: not transplanting, but wrenching.
Related Words
uprootthe plain English equivalent
eradicateto remove completely; often ideas rather than people
diasporathe condition that can follow deracination
rootlessthe resulting state, often with emotional charge