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Thesaurus for displace
Pronunciation of displace: D IH0 S P L EY1 S (dɪs'pleɪs)
Number of syllables of displace: 2
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Pronunciation Video of displace
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Definition of displace
- (v): put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
- (v): remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
- (v): cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I''m moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
- (v): force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
- (v): take the place of
- (v): move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
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Examples of displace
- The stem moves within the well to displace mercury through the capillary.
- Disclosure may also displace the problem.
- Then you will be able to displace the usurious money lender.
- The complex is treated to displace the styrene from the complex.
- The gametocytes may distort the cell or displace the nucleus.
- They were not supposed to displace the ones with the article.
- Faults cut across and displace the rock layers.
- The number of features to displace.
- Then you will be able to displace the usurious money lender.
- The ship was designed to displace.