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.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To become separated from a main body or mass. 2. To practice a policy of racial segregation. 3.Genetics To undergo genetic segregation.
ADJECTIVE:
(-gt, -gt) Separated; isolated.
NOUN:
(-gt, -gt)1. One that is or has been segregated. 2.Genetics See segregant.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin sgregre, sgregt- : s-, apart; see s(w)e- in Appendix I + grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Appendix I.
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