to segregate
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈsɛɡrəˌɡeɪt/
- Offensive
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segregar
- In many parts of the country, some schools still segregate students based on their race.
- a segregated school
- racially segregated
- segregated Black communities
We we are not segregated by housing, for example.
- We we are not segregated by housing, for example.
- Going from being being segregated, can't go to proper schools, can't vote.
- Now I hear they want to re segregate schools.
- I think Biden, Biden, he was, he was against the segregating schools.
- His message was equality to to treat somebody equal in a time where people segregate.
- Jews never held slaves it There were Islamic empires who held slaves and who segregated people and who continued to do that.
- Microphone cameras have been done for segregate in a changing room won't let blacks change with whites won't let blacks eat with whites.
Examples
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As long as schools are segregated, Negroes will receive an education that is both separate and unequal.
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Ninety percent of Belfast's public housing is segregated on religious grounds.
Academic text (2011) -
Now I hear they want to re segregate schools.
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So they were segregating people because of their race to receive different training.
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You live in a world that segregates you into classes.
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Parks: I know I will never, never ride a segregated city bus again.
Fiction book (2001) -
Our schools, hospitals, churches all segregated in practice, if not in law.
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As a child growing up in Houston, Texas, in the '50s, everything was segregated.
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Among large cities, Chicago happens to be the most racially segregated metropolis in the nation.
Academic text (1991) -
By 1990, there was only a 2-point difference between the scores of segregated and desegregated black students.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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4.2
To keep someone or something apart from others
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4.9
To treat someone worse because of their race, sex or religion
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7.9
Put people into different social levels, for example upper and lower classes
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9.9
Divide a country or group into smaller, often hostile, parts
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9.8
Force a group to live in a poor, separate area and feel cut off
Antonyms
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6.8
To end rules that keep people of different races separate in schools and other public places
How Segregating
Surface Forms
Morphology
segregate = segreg + ate
Formed from Latin se- ('apart') + root 'greg' with the verb-forming '-ate'; the social/political sense is derived from 'separate' but the morphemes are Latinate and not fully transparent to typical learners.
Etymology
Segregate comes from the Latin parts se- 'apart' and greg 'flock', like in congregate. So to segregate people is to put them 'apart from the group', which explains why the word is used for unfair practices or laws that keep groups of people separate.