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dis⋅placed

  [dis-pleyst]
Use displaced in a Sentence
–adjective
1. lacking a home, country, etc.
2. moved or put out of the usual or proper place.
–noun
3. (used with a plural verb) persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources (usually prec. by the): After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.
Origin:
1565–75; displace + -ed 2

dis⋅place

  [dis-pleys]
–verb (used with object), -placed, -plac⋅ing.
1. to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
2. to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
3. to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.
4. to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
5. Obsolete. to rid oneself of.
Origin:
1545–55; dis- 1 + place, perh. modeled on MF desplacer

Related forms:
dis⋅place⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
2. relocate. Displace, misplace mean to put something in a different place from where it should be. To displace often means to shift something solid and comparatively immovable, more or less permanently from its place: The flood displaced houses from their foundations. To misplace is to put an object in a wrong place so that it is difficult to find: Papers belonging in the safe were misplaced and temporarily lost. 4. depose, oust, dismiss.
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dis·place   (dĭs-plās')   
tr.v.   dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es
  1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.
  2. To take the place of; supplant.
  3. To discharge from an office or position.
dis·place'a·ble adj., dis·plac'er n.
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