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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Parts
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verb |
| inflections: |
segregates, segregating, segregated |
| definition: |
If a rule, law, or decision segregates a group of people, it separates that group from another group or from other groups. It keeps them apart from the others.
In the jail, younger prisoners were segregated from older prisoners.In the colony, native people were segregated from the colonists.- synonyms:
- isolate, separate
- similar words:
- divide
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| related words: |
ban |
| derivations: |
segregable (adj.), segregative (adj.), segregator (n.) |
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