segregate
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
a segregated thing, person, or group.
Origin of segregate
1Opposites for segregate
Other words from segregate
- seg·re·ga·ble [seg-ri-guh-buhl], /ˈsɛg rɪ gə bəl/, adjective
- seg·re·ga·tive, adjective
- non·seg·re·ga·ble, adjective
- non·seg·re·ga·tive, adjective
- re·seg·re·gate, verb, re·seg·re·gat·ed, re·seg·re·gat·ing.
- un·seg·re·ga·ble, adjective
- un·seg·re·gat·ing, adjective
- un·seg·re·ga·tive, adjective
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How to use segregate in a sentence
Amid unprecedented access to information, our fellow citizens are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities.
Pew Study: Americans Are Self-Segregating Amid Proliferating Partisan Media | John Avlon | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBack in 1999, the European Court of Human Rights found that the Czech Republic was guilty of segregating Roma school children.
Roma Children Face Segregation In EU Schools | Amana Fontanella-Khan | March 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLater, he led the fight to against segregating Hasidic Jewish students from other students in a public school.
The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities.
Human history does not show us a relatively large mass segregating itself into smaller communities.
The Secret of the Totem | Andrew Lang
The one strong segregating feature in primitive America was the Cordilleras, which held east and west apart.
Influences of Geographic Environment | Ellen Churchill SempleLatimer, in 1552, speaks of them as segregating themselves from the company of other men.
The same end demanded by eugenics may be accomplished by segregating in life confinement all but the occasional criminals.
Society | Henry Kalloch RoweOfficial protestations to the contrary, the Navy was again segregating people by race.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.
British Dictionary definitions for segregate
/ (ˈsɛɡrɪˌɡeɪt) /
to set or be set apart from others or from the main group
(tr) to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)
genetics metallurgy to undergo or cause to undergo segregation
Origin of segregate
1Derived forms of segregate
- segregable (ˈsɛɡrɪɡəbəl), adjective
- segregative, adjective
- segregator, noun
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