| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To remove, dislodge, move, relocate or translocate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To travel. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To reset or recover. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To change, shift, switch, modify or replace. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To affect, churn or tamper. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To raise, boost, elevate or lift.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb displace.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (displace) | 1. Cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war".[Wordnet]. 2. Take the place of or have precedence over.[Wordnet]. 3. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.[Wordnet]. 4. Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.[Wordnet]. 5. Force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war".[Wordnet]. 6. Move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people".[Wordnet]. 7. Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives".[Wordnet]. 8. Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space".[Wordnet]. 9. 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.[Websters]. 10. To crowd out; to take the place of.[Websters]. 11. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.[Websters]. 12. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: displacing, displaced, displaces, displacer, displacers, displacingly and displacedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISPLACING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1578. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISPLACING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Putting out of the usual or proper place; removing from an office, state or condition.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of displace. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: displace
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Displace International | Displace International is a fictional private military contractor from the 2005 video game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: displace | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Displace Me | 14 | Displace Me | 14 | |
| Operation Displace | 2 | Operation Displace | 2 | |
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