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segregate

/ˈseɡrɪɡeɪt/verb

उच्चारण सेग्रिगेट

अलग करना, पृथक् करना

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verb
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    [T] ~ sb/sth (from sb/sth)

    to separate people of different races, religions or sexes and treat them in a different way; to keep one thing separate from another

    अलग करना, पृथक् करना

    • Segregate wet and dry waste.
    • Schools teach children to segregate plastic from kitchen waste.
    • Hospitals must segregate infectious patients from other patients.
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    • The housing society asked residents to segregate their rubbish.
    • The old law tried to segregate children by caste, which is now illegal.

    Synonyms separate isolate set apart divide quarantine

    Opposite integrate unite combine mix

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seg·re·gate

With -re- (not 'segragate').

बीच में -re- ('segragate' गलत है)।

?Which word?

Keep the separate words together: segregate, isolate, quarantine (keep apart because of disease), alienate.

अलग करने के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: segregate, isolate, quarantine (रोग के कारण अलग रखना), alienate।

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General knowledge

Racial segregation in South Africa was called apartheid; in the USA, the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr fought segregation; Swachh Bharat asks people to segregate wet and dry waste at source.

दक्षिण अफ़्रीका में नस्लीय पृथक्करण apartheid कहलाता था; अमेरिका में Martin Luther King Jr के नेतृत्व वाले नागरिक अधिकार आंदोलन ने पृथक्करण से लड़ाई की; स्वच्छ भारत लोगों से गीला और सूखा कचरा स्रोत पर अलग करने को कहता है।