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displaced
[ dis-pleyst ]
adjective
- lacking a home, country, etc.
- moved or put out of the usual or proper place.
noun
- Usually the displaced. persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources:
After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.
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Other Words From
- un·dis·placed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of displaced1
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Example Sentences
“We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want,” said Jihad Yar Wazir.
She is an internally displaced woman who fled her home in Gbatala Bong County due to the high deaths from the Ebola outbreak.
The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians.
But for the majority of the American public, the panic seems displaced.
Now that he and his family are displaced and the risks have escalated he wants to leave.
But the balanced forces once displaced would be seen constantly to come to an equilibrium at a new point.
There was no confusion, and already the hired men were busy with two great machines until Winston displaced two of them.
He was a married man and his wife was still living at the time when he was displaced.
Already, in England, a good fourth of the population had been displaced; and what were these displaced populations to do?
A committee appointed by Connecticut displaced the bound at the southwest corner of Warwick.
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