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displacing

verb

Meaning

  1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
  2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  4. To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
  5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  6. To repress

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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