EGAVE

segregate

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Separate; select.
  2. adjective Separated from others of the same kind.
  3. adjective Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.
  4. verb To separate.
  5. verb In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
    Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
  6. verb To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
  7. noun An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.
    A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.

Similar words

split isolate divide separate dissociate sever differentiate decouple distinguish remove

Often followed by

the them and themselves in into to from their

Word family

segregated segregates segregating segregative

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