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Verb: rusticate  'rús-ti,keyt
  1. Live in the country and lead a rustic life
    "After years in the city, they decided to rusticate in a small farming community"
     
  2. Send to the country
    "He was rusticated for his bad behaviour"
     
  3. Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England
    "The student was rusticated for cheating on his exams";
    - send down [Brit]
     
  4. Give (stone) a rustic look
    "The mason rusticated the facade to match the old farmhouse style"
     
  5. Lend a rustic character to
    "rusticate the house in the country"

Derived forms: rusticating, rusticates, rusticated

Type of: alter, ban, banish, blackball, cast out, change, debar, domicil [rare], domicile, domiciliate [rare], modify, ostracise [Brit], ostracize, pill [slang], rebate, reside, shack, shun, suspend