Meaning & use
Segregating
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Setting apart or separating people or things from a larger group, especially based on race, class, or category.
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The lab requires segregating hazardous waste from ordinary trash.
Historic laws once enforced segregating public schools by race.
A note on using this word
In U.S. history, "segregating" is strongly associated with the era of legally enforced racial separation that the civil rights movement worked to dismantle.
Words with a similar meaning
separatingisolatingdividing
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Words with an opposite meaning
integratingcombining
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