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dis·place (dis plās′, dis′-)
transitive verb displaced -·placed′, displacing -·plac′·ing
- to move from its usual or proper place
- to remove from office; discharge
- to take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause of or occasion for removing, pushing aside, etc.) a ship displaces a certain amount of water, factory workers that have been displaced by machines
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