SEGREGATE

I. verb (-gated; -gating) see: secede Date: 1542 transitive verb to separate or set apart from others or from the general mass ; isolate , to cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society), intransitive verb separate , withdraw , to practice or enforce a policy of segregation, to undergo genetic segregation, segregative adjective II. noun Date: 1871 one that is in some respect ~d