deracinate - verb - to tear up something by the roots (Lexico.com)
June 20th marks the last official day of spring, a time of year during which weeds of all shapes and sizes begin to propagate. If you are into gardening as I am, you may spend an inordinate amount of time deracinating the unwanted dandelions, clover, crabgrass, etc.
/dēˈrasəˌnāt/
If you say deracinate aloud, it sounds like it involves a bit of serious violence or at least destruction, which is so appropriate because we amateur horticulturists do, after all, want to annihilate all species of plant life that are invasive enough to strangle the beautiful pedals that have a hard enough time reaching toward the sun as it is. We green-thumb owners can and do deracinate all ugliness–however green it may be–in favor of legitimate flowers, be they perennials or annuals or just grass: rye, fescue or otherwise. Although it often takes hours to deracinate well, the end result is always worth it even if the effect only lasts for a couple of weeks. As weeds are more virile and fecund than you are, realistically, you could spend a large part of the summer deracinating. But nothing is easy. Just remember, gardening is a choice like everything else.
All of you dads out there can stop deracinating for one day since it is Father's Day. Have your kids do it for you. That's why you had them. Right?
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