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verb

Displace v. t. (past & past part. displaced; pres. part. displacing)

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

To crowd out; to take the place of. "Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas."

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. (Obs.) "You have displaced the mirth."

Synonyms: To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.

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"Displace" Quotes from Famous Books

... OF CHILD LABOR.—Students of the problem of child labor unanimously condemn the practice of habitually employing young children outside the home. Where poorly paid children compete with men and women, they serve either to displace adults, or, by competition, to lower the ...

— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... record these new developments on my map, and was compelled, through shortage of flags, to displace the Servian fleet from the North Sea and Gladys's Belgian ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 • Various

... of Nature or of Art, Which tempred so the feature of her face, That pride and meeknesse, mist by equall part, Doe both appeare t'adorne her beauties grace? For with mild pleasance, which doth pride displace, She to her love doth lookers eyes allure; And with stern countenance back again doth chace Their looser lookes that stir up lustes impure. With such strange termes* her eyes she doth inure, That with one looke she doth my life dismay, And with another doth it streight recure: ...

— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser

... the members of clubs were not of my caste. I had taken a pride in my garden and determined I would attend to it more myself. I bought gardening books, but the gardener knew far more than I could ever hope to know, and I could not displace him. I had been in the habit of looking through a microscope in the evening, although I did not understand any science in which the microscope is useful, and my slides were bought ready-made. I brought it out now in the daytime, but I was soon weary of it and sold it. We went to Worthing ...

— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford

... [This act shall not create new office or displace any officer.] No change herein made in the name of an office existing when this act takes effect shall create a new office. The incumbents of offices when this act takes effect, the duties of which are herein defined, or the filling of which is herein provided ...

— Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 • Anonymous

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