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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-derived
sedown, away, reversal
+
gregflock, herd, group
+
ateto make, having
=segregate

Common 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.

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