segregate from (someone or something)

segregate from (someone or something)

1. To separate or become isolated from other people or things within some larger group. The adult males of the species segregate from the rest of the herd during mass migration. The four of us just kind of segregated from the others in the class over the course of the semester.
2. To separate or isolate one or more people or things from other people or things within some larger group. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "segregate" and "from." The teacher wanted to segregate the boys from the girls in the classroom. We're trying to segregate these aberrant data sets from the rest of the results.
See also: segregate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

segregate (someone) from (someone else)

 and segregate (something) from (something else)
to separate someone from someone else or something from something else. I was asked to segregate the swimmers from the nonswimmers. Let's segregate the larger fish from the smaller ones.
See also: segregate

segregate something from something else Go to segregate someone from someone

else.
See also: else, go, segregate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • segregate
  • segregate from
  • segregate from else Go to segregate from
  • separate
  • sunder out (someone or something)
  • separate from
  • separate from (someone or something)
  • separate from else Go to separate from
  • segregate into
  • segregate into (something or some place)