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displace

  • verb
  • /dɪsˈpleɪs/

To put out of place; to disarrange.

Other meanings

  1. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

  2. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

Related words

  • displaceability
  • displacer
  • redisplace
  • retrodisplace
  • displacement
  • displacive
  • displaceable

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