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单词 displace
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
dis•place /dɪsˈpleɪs/USA pronunciation   v. [+ object], -placed, -plac•ing. 
  1. to compel (someone) to leave home or country:a faceless bureaucracy that displaces the people.
  2. to move or put out of place:to displace a joint.
  3. to take the place of;
    replace:trying to displace me in my job.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
dis•place  (dis plās),USA pronunciation v.t., -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. [Obs.]to rid oneself of.
  • dis-1 + place, perh. modeled on Middle French desplacer 1545–55
dis•placea•ble, adj. 
    • 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged 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.See corresponding entry in Unabridged depose, oust, dismiss.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
displace /dɪsˈpleɪs/ vb (transitive)
  1. to move from the usual or correct location
  2. to remove from office or employment
  3. to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
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