to separate
20
4.2
- verb
- /ˈsɛpəˌreɪt/
- Offensive
:
segregar
- Efforts to separate minority groups often lead to inequality and tension.
- separate by race
You have a way of you separate people in the clan to those outside.
- You have a way of you separate people in the clan to those outside.
- And they and they are separating people.
- And they and they, they do class warfare and separate people instead of saying, how did you get wealthy?
- How were we going to bring these people along to an integrated community where law didn't separate people in accordance with race?
- They build walls, they keep their population small, and they separate themselves into groups of essentially casts based on usefulness.
- You know, like you see a lot of, like you, you hear a lot of like, oh, caravans are coming or, and children are being separated from their parents or their families.
- I, I love it when I've heard you say that to judge people is to keep them separate from me.
- She explained the Berlin Wall to me, which is a wall-e built in Germany to separate the people in Berlin from the Mexicans in Berlin.
Examples
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How were we going to bring these people along to an integrated community where law didn't separate people in accordance with race?
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The foreign jihadists in Iraq need to be separated from the local insurgents through the political process.
Academic text (2005) -
I think we should separate those girls from Mary.
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It's just people are being actually separated from certain elements of society based on the social views that they hold.
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Victims are identified and separated because of their racial, ethnic, or religious identity.
Academic text (2000) -
If they were not to emigrate, they should at least be separated from the other Germans.
Academic text (1996) -
The Israeli government intentionally implemented policies to separate the Druze from the larger Arab community.
Academic text (2005) -
The challenge was compounded by social values, which separated men's and women's spheres.
Academic text (1997) -
The government passed laws to separate public facilities for different races.
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In some schools, students were separated based on their gender.
Synonyms
256
4.2
To keep someone or something apart from others
120
4.9
To treat someone worse because of their race, sex or religion
103
4.4
To choose one person from a group for special attention
71
4.4
To show or notice how things are different
67
6.8
To keep people apart and treat them differently because of race, religion, or gender
2
3.9
To keep something separate for a special use or to show it as different
1
8.6
Treat a person or group as strange and not included
1
9.3
To separate things into two opposite groups, ignoring the middle
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
3
6.6
To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
Phrasal Verbs
How Excluded
- US
31
7.7
- Offensive
67
6.8
- Offensive
20
4.2
- US
81
7.4
- Offensive
120
4.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Separate comes from the Latin separare, where se- means 'apart' and the rest means 'part'. That's why separate can mean keeping people 'apart' from others, often in an unfair or harmful way.