- to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
- to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
- to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
- (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
- a segregated thing, person, or group.
- to set or be set apart from others or from the main group
- to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)
- to undergo or cause to undergo segregation
