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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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