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displace
/dɪsˈpleɪs/
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What does displace mean?
verb
- 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.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To repress.
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IPA pronunciation
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At the same time he made an effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure.
It tends to displace fear, though it may be combined with it, in one of the most unhappy --because helpless--mental states.
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Hydrogen is the lightest gas known to science, and is used in airships to displace the air and raise them from the ground.
All this of course does not question the fact that the proprieties of the substituted schedule are more decorous than those which they displace.
He could displace his muscles so that the lower angles of the scapulae projected and presented the appearance historically attributed to luxation of the scapula.