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Quick definitions from WordNet (displace)
▸ verb: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
▸ verb: force to move ("The refugees were displaced by the war")
▸ verb: take the place of
▸ verb: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship ("The colonists displaced the natives")
▸ verb: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
▸ verb: cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
▸ Also see displacing
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to displace
▸ Usage examples for displace
▸ Words that often appear near displace
▸ Rhymes of displace
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▸ verb: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
▸ verb: force to move ("The refugees were displaced by the war")
▸ verb: take the place of
▸ verb: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship ("The colonists displaced the natives")
▸ verb: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
▸ verb: cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
▸ Also see displacing
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to displace
▸ Usage examples for displace
▸ Words that often appear near displace
▸ Rhymes of displace
▸ Invented words related to displace