displacedadj.
/dɪsˈpleɪst/ a. Removed from its place; put out of place; deposed: see the verb.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective]
unwevedc1330
displaced1571
uprooteda1593
dissituate1593
unsphered1598
unroosted1614
dislocated1793
dislocate1814
slipped1820
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective]
outedc1500
deposed1552
secluded1604
cast1607
disbanded1611
cashiereda1626
ejected1649
abdicateda1675
displaced1841
overthrown1859
1571 A. Golding in tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. Ep. Ded. sig. *.iiijv There be..many displaced words.
1823 D. Ellis Life J. Gordon 18 To retain the head of the bone in its displaced situation.
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. 90 Archimedes..discovered that a body, when immersed in a fluid, loses a portion of its weight equal to that of the displaced fluid.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vi. i. 15 No mention was made of the displaced vizír.
b. displaced person n. one removed from his home country by military or political pressure, esp. a non-German compelled to work in Germany in the 1939–45 war, and thereafter homeless. Abbrev. D.P.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > exile > [noun] > refugee or stateless person
refugee1692
basti1906
non-domicile1938
displaced person1944
D.P.1945
asylee1950
1944 Sat. Evening Post 22 July 14/1 The Refugees..or, as they term these people here..the Displaced Persons.
1945 Broadcaster (U.S.) June 7 The real difficulty was and is the care of the slave laborers, men, women and children the Germans had imported from all over Europe to do their work for them. These we call Displaced Persons and for brevity refer to them as DP's.
1946 Ann. Reg. 1945 64 The huge number of ‘displaced persons’ who were still wandering about.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. vi. 198 The very migrations of prisoners, slaves, refugees, displaced persons, all widened the bonds of human association.
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adj.1571