separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun degregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
To segregate two groups of people or things means to keep them physically apart from each other. Police segregated the two rival camps of protesters They segregate you from the rest of the community
To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification
divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county