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seg·re·gate  (sgr-gt)
v. seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates
v.tr.
1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate.
2. To impose the separation of (a race or class) from the rest of society.
v.intr.
1. To become separated from a main body or mass.
2. To practice a policy of racial segregation.
3. Genetics To undergo genetic segregation.
adj. (-gt, -gt)
Separated; isolated.
n. (-gt, -gt)
1. One that is or has been segregated.
2. Genetics See segregant.

[Latin sgregre, sgregt- : s-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots.]

segre·gative adj.
segre·gator n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.segregatedsegregated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"
separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"
integrated - not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups; "integrated schools"

segregated
adjective divided, separate, set apart, isolated, partitioned, kept apart racially segregated schools
Translations
segregated [ˈsegrɪgeɪtɪd] ADJsegregado, separado
segregated [ˈsɛgrɪgeɪtɪd] adjségrégué(e), ségrégé(e), où règne la ségrégation
racially segregated schools → des écoles ségréguées, des écolesrègne la ségrégation raciale
segregated [ˈsɛgrɪˌgeɪtɪd] adj (Pol) → in cui vige la segregazione
segregated [ˈsɛgrɪˌgeɪtɪd] adj (Pol) → in cui vige la segregazione


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He would have warned Daughtry of his disease and enabled him to take ship to the South Seas or to Japan, or to other countries where lepers are not segregated.
She has conceived the curious idea that Cathy is TWINS, and that one of them is a boy-twin and failed to get segregated - got submerged, is the idea.
Before they came, Avonlea had seemed thousands of miles away; those letters brought it near and linked the old life to the new so closely that they began to seem one and the same, instead of two hopelessly segregated existences.
 
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