Displace definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DISPLACE, v.t. [dis and place.] 1. To put out of ... remove from any state, condition, office or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. 3. To disorder. You have ... situation will preempt the lecture by the professor" [syn: preempt, displace] 3: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or ... secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away ... director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" [syn: move, displace] Merriam Webster's transitive verb Etymology: probably from Middle ...
... the heels. Supplanted down he fell. 1. To remove or displace by stratagem; or to displace and take the place of; as, a rival supplants another ... Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.'' --Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival ... supplant the received ideas of God. --Landor. Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (supplants, supplanting ... Synonyms v. a. 1. Undermine, overthrow, overpower, force away. 2. Displace (by stratagem), replace, remove, supersede. Moby Thesaurus act for, ...
... Dictionary DISLOCATE, v.t. [dis and locate, L., place.] To displace; to put out of its proper place; particularly, to put ... Date: 1601 1. to put out of place; specifically to displace (a bone) from normal connections with another bone 2. to ... in the body). 2 disrupt; put out of order. 3 displace. Etymology: prob. back-form. f. DISLOCATION Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... dis- + locare to place, fr. locus place. See Locus.] To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a ... n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. 1. Displace, disarrange, disturb put out of place or out of order ... clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, dishevel, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, displace, disrupt, disturb, jumble, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, ...
... come or be placed in the room of; hence, to displace or render unnecessary; as, an officer is superseded by the ... to take the place, room, or position of 3. to displace in favor of another ; supplant Synonyms: see replace • superseder noun ... be placed, in the room of; to replace. 2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as ... Suspend, annul, overrule, set aside, make void, obviate, neutralize. 2. Displace, replace, supplant, succeed, remove. Moby Thesaurus abandon, act for, change places with, crowd out, cut out, desert, discard, displace, double for, fill in for, forsake, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch ...
... not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deutoronomy 19. 2. To displace from an office. 3. To take or put away in ... from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. v. a. 1. Displace, dislodge, transfer, transport, transplant, carry. 2. Withdraw, extract, abstract, take ... discrown, disemploy, disengage, disentangle, disenthrone, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, disparage, dispart, displace, displume, dispose of, distance, disturb, ditch, divest, do away with ...
... from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. 3. To unfix; to loosen; to ... from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. --Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or ... from the hinges. 2. Disorder, confuse, derange, unsettle, shatter. 3. Displace, unfix. Moby Thesaurus agitate, bother, craze, dement, derange, disarrange, disarticulate, disjoint, dislocate, disorder, displace, disquiet, distract, disturb, drive insane, drive mad, flurry, fluster, frenzy ...
... replace a worn carpet > • replaceable adjective • replacer noun Synonyms: replace, displace, supplant, supersede mean to put out of a usual or ... or no longer usable or adequate < replaced the broken window >. displace implies an ousting or dislodging < war had displaced thousands >. supplant ... Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and ... defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, double for, drum out, emanate, ensue, expel, fill in ...
... Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.'' --Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival ... supplant the received ideas of God. --Landor. Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.
... Dictionary LUX'ATE, v.t. [L. luxo, laxo, laxus.] To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to ... imp. & p. p. Luxated; p. pr. & vb. n. Luxating.] To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint; to ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms v. a. Dislocate, disjoint, displace, put out of joint.
... Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.'' --Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival ... supplant the received ideas of God. --Landor. Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. Moby Thesaurus agency, change, commutation, delegation ...
... up 2. to pull up by the roots 3. to displace from a country or traditional habitat Synonyms: see exterminate • uprootedness ... 1 pull (a plant etc.) up from the ground. 2 displace (a person) from an accustomed location. 3 eradicate, destroy. Derivatives ... deracinate, destroy, devastate, dig out, dig up, disentangle, dislodge, dismount, displace, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eliminate, eradicate, evolve, evulse ...
... director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" [syn: move, displace] 3: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational ... change the place or position of (2) to dislodge or displace from a fixed position ; budge b. to transfer (as a ... delocalize, demarche, demean, depart, deport, descend, design, device, dislocate, dislodge, displace, dispose, disquiet, disturb, do, dodge, doing, doings, domesticate, drive, drive ...
... fret and vex, or expressing vexation with decorum. 3. To displace; to discard. [Not in use.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005 ... To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace. [Obs.] --Bacon. Syn: To disorder; derange; unsettle; disturb; disconcert; agitate ...
... form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he ... form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he ...
... from an office, state or condition. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Displace Dis*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displaced; p. pr ... office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. 4. To dislodge; to drive ...