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🎓 To suspend (UK) 🪨 To make rough 🚪 To send away 🌳 To live simply
to rusticate

to rusticate

9.9
To send someone to the countryside, often as a punishment
  • verb
  • /ˈrʌstɪˌkeɪt/
  • Archaic
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  • During the Cultural Revolution, many students were rusticated to rural areas, far removed from their urban lifestyles.

Examples

  • For his part in a rebellion against the faculty, he was "rusticated," sent north to the small town of Kingston for the balance of the year.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Local governments were under tremendous pressure to create jobs to absorb the growing numbers of people waiting for employment, in particular the previously rusticated urban youth (Sabin 1994).

    Academic text (2001)

  • - To rusticate.

    Bedlam (1946)

  • After breaking the school's strict code of conduct, he was rusticated and sent to live with his relatives in the countryside for a year.

  • The student was rusticated as a consequence of his involvement in the protests against the university's administration.

Synonyms

to banish
vsto rusticate
107 6.3

Force someone to leave a place or group and not let them return

sends someone specifically to the countryside rather than full exclusion

Antonyms

to urbanize
  • US
4 5.3

To make a place more like a city by building more houses, roads, shops, and services

How Remote

to exile
46 5.6
to rusticate
  • Archaic
9.9
to transfer
528 2.7
to reassign
74 4.1

Surface Forms

rusticate infinitive
rusticated past
rusticated past participle
rusticating present participle
rusticates third person singular

Morphology

rusticate = rustic + rustic (transparent) = rustic + ate

Built by productive suffixation from 'rustic' ('rural') + '-ate' meaning 'make or become rural; send to the country', so the sense is directly derived from the base.

Etymology

Rusticate comes from the Latin root rus meaning 'country' and the familiar word rustic meaning 'rural'. It originally meant to send someone off to the country, which is why schools once used it as a punishment to make a student live away from campus.