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Definitions of displace:

  • verb:   move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
  • verb:   force to move
    Example: "The refugees were displaced by the war"
  • verb:   take the place of
  • verb:   put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
    Example: "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


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