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displace

[ dis-pleys ]

verb (used with object)

displaced, displacing.
  1. to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
  2. to move or put out of the usual or proper place.

    Synonyms:

  3. to take the place of; replace; supplant:

    Fiction displaces fact.

  4. to remove from a position, office, or dignity.

    Synonyms: , ,

  5. Obsolete. to rid oneself of.


displace

/ »åɪ²õˈ±è±ô±ðɪ²õ /

verb

  1. to move from the usual or correct location
  2. to remove from office or employment
  3. to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
  4. to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war
  5. chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group
  6. physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)
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Derived Forms

  • »å¾±²õˈ±è±ô²¹³¦±ð°ù, noun
  • »å¾±²õˈ±è±ô²¹³¦±ð²¹²ú±ô±ð, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å¾±²õ·±è±ô²¹³¦±ða·²ú±ô±ð adjective
  • ±è°ù±ðd¾±²õ·±è±ô²¹³¦±ð verb (used with object) predisplaced predisplacing
  • un»å¾±²õ·±è±ô²¹³¦±ða·²ú±ô±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of displace1

1545–55; dis- 1 + place, perhaps modeled on Middle French desplacer
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Synonym Study

Displace, misplace mean to put something in a different place from where it should be. To displace often means to shift something solid and comparatively immovable, more or less permanently from its place: The flood displaced houses from their foundations. To misplace is to put an object in a wrong place so that it is difficult to find: Papers belonging in the safe were misplaced and temporarily lost.
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After the Palisades fire upended the education of thousands of students in and around the coastal enclave, Santa Monica relaxed rules so that displaced schools could move there.

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But after a lap to cool down his tyres and recharge his hybrid battery, Norris laid down the benchmark time, displacing the impressive Russell from the top of the times.

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At least 27 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in northern Gaza that was serving as a shelter for displaced families, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

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Even before the earthquake Myanmar was in turmoil - locked in a civil war that has displaced an estimated 3.5 million people.

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“I will gladly have her be the hero, because this is all about the thousands and thousands of people that are displaced,†he told The Times in February.

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