segregate
🇬🇧 UK/'segrigeit/🇺🇸 US
IELTSTOEFLC2
Definitions
v.
To separate people or things, especially by race, sex, or other characteristics.
隔离;使分离;实行种族隔离
adj.
Separated or set apart from others.
被隔离的;分开的
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.racially segregated种族隔离的
- 2.segregate by gender按性别隔离
- 3.[segregate waste]垃圾分类
- 4.segregate from the rest与其他人/物隔离
Example Sentences
- 1.
Schools in the American South were legally segregated by race until the 1960s.
- 2.
The prison segregates violent offenders from the general population.
- 3.
Recycling programs ask residents to segregate waste into different categories.