| 单词 | displace |
| 释义 | displace —displaceable, adj. /dis plays"/, v.t., displaced, displacing. 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. [1545-55; DIS-1 + PLACE, perh. modeled on MF desplacer] Syn. 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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