displace
/dɪsˈpleɪs/ verb B2- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced. · Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.
- To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To repress.
He/she/it displaces · Past displaced · Past participle displaced · -ing form displacing
Verb forms
- Base form
- displace
- He/she/it
- displaces
- Past
- displaced
- Past participle
- displaced
- -ing form
- displacing
From the library
I fancied that you must have heard me when I displaced the figure, but luck was on my side.
He waited in order to allow pure air to displace the foul atmosphere, and then went on.
So each of my cases displaces the last, and Mlle.
These displaced agricultural workers hoped to find fertile valleys and abundant employment, but they often encountered severe economic hardship upon arrival.
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