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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Displace \Dis*place"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Displaced}; p. pr &
vb n. {Displacing}.] [Pref. dis- + place: cf F.
d['e]placer.]
1. 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.
2. To crowd out to take the place of
Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those
seas. --London
Times.
3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to
discharge; to depose; as to displace an officer of the
revenue.
4. To dislodge; to drive away to banish. [Obs.]
You have displaced the mirth. --Shak.
Syn: To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.
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