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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
se
gr
geIt
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| inflections: |
segregates, segregating, segregated |
| definition 1: |
to separate or place apart from others or from the majority of a group, people, or the like; isolate.
Younger prisoners were segregated from older prisoners.- synonyms:
- isolate, separate
- similar words:
- detach, dissociate, disunite, divide, ostracize, seclude, sequester
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| definition 2: |
to require or enforce the separation or isolation of (a race, religious sect, class, or the like) from the dominant group in a society or from the society at large.
The colonial government segregated the native tribes.Blacks were segregated from whites under racist laws.- similar words:
- ostracize, quarantine, sequester
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| definition 3: |
to enforce or impose racial, religious, or similar separation in.
Many cities continued to segregate their schools despite the new law.- antonyms:
- desegregate, integrate
- similar words:
- separate
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| related words: |
ban, bar, cloister |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
se
gr
geIt
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| definition 1: |
to come to be set apart from the dominant or larger part of a body or group.
- similar words:
- dissociate, disunite, divide, separate
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| definition 2: |
to enforce separation on the basis of race, religion, class, or the like.
- antonyms:
- desegregate, integrate
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adverb + (v.)segregate
carefully, completely, deliberately, effectively, essentially, highly, increasingly, intentionally, largely, physically, racially, rigidly, socially, somewhat, spatially, still, strictly, totally
(v.)segregate
+ adverb
separately
(v.)segregate
+ noun
ability,
apartheid,
asset,
ballpark,
basis,
black,
class,
classroom,
detainee,
ethnicity,
facility,
function,
gay,
gender,
grain,
housing,
income,
inmate,
minority,
population,
prison,
prisoner,
race,
rest,
segment,
sex,
theater,
trait,
waste,
white,
workplace
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| pronunciation: |
se
gr
geIt
[or]
se
gr
giht
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| definition: |
that which has been segregated.
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| derivations: |
segregable (adj.), segregative (adj.), segregator (n.) |
The word segregate
contains the following parts:
greg
Latin
root
that means flock, gathering
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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