displace

Word family  noun displacement adjective displaced verb displace

noun place placement placing displacement replacement adjective displaced misplaced replaceable verb place displace misplace replace

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dis·place /dɪsˈpleɪs/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive]  1  REPLACEto take the place or position of something or someone 取代，替代 SYN replace Coal has been displaced by natural gas as a major source of energy. 作为一种主要能源，煤的地位已为天然气所取代。 immigrants who displace US workers in the job market 在就业市场上取代美国工人的移民2  PGLEAVE A PLACEto make a group of people or animals have to leave the place where they normally live 使〔人群或兽群〕离开家园 Fifty thousand people have been displaced by the fighting. 五万人因为战争背井离乡。3  to force something out of its usual place or position 排出，挤出 The water displaced by the landslides created a tidal wave. 崩塌的泥石排出的水形成一股巨浪。 —displaced adjective→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

displace• This dam is going to displace 25,000 Kurds in a war region.• Furthermore, such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas.• An estimated 500,000 refugees have been displaced by the civil war.• Some of the companies that have been displaced have, in their time, displaced others.• In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses, the grapevines, the grass, would be back.• Thus several measures are available to displace natural gas for a higher use as a facilitator of coal combustion.• The high ridge displaces ocean water.• Compact discs displaced records in the late 1980s.• Spence's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby.• Flooding caused by the dam may displace up to a million people.

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displace
dis‧place AC /dɪsˈpleɪs/ verb [transitive]1. to take the place or position of something or someone
   SYN  replace:
    Coal has been displaced by natural gas as a major source of energy.
    immigrants who displace US workers in the job market
2. to make a group of people or animals have to leave the place where they normally live:
    Fifty thousand people have been displaced by the fighting.
3. to force something out of its usual place or position:
    The water displaced by the landslides created a tidal wave.
—displaced adjective

dis·place AW BrE /dɪsˈpleɪs/ 🔊NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪs/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they displace BrE /dɪsˈpleɪs/ 🔊 NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪs/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it displaces BrE /dɪsˈpleɪsɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪsɪz/ 🔊past simple displaced BrE /dɪsˈpleɪst/ 🔊 NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪst/ 🔊past participle displaced BrE /dɪsˈpleɪst/ 🔊 NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪst/ 🔊 -ing form displacing BrE /dɪsˈpleɪsɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /dɪsˈpleɪsɪŋ/ 🔊 [often passive] (formal) ~ sb/sth to take the place of sb/sth 取代；替代；置换 SYN replace ◆Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines. 工厂的工人已逐渐被机器取代。🔊🔊◆(specialist) The ship displaces 58 000 tonnes (= as a way of measuring its size). 这艘轮船的排水量为 58 000 吨。🔊🔊~ sb to force people to move away from their home to another place 迫使（某人）离开家园◆Around 10 000 people have been displaced by the fighting. 大约 1 万人因战争而背井离乡。🔊🔊~ sth to move sth from its usual position 移动；挪开；转移◆Check for roof tiles that have been displaced by the wind. 检查一下屋顶上是否有瓦被风刮得挪了位。🔊🔊~ sb (especially NAmE) to remove sb from a job or position 撤职；免职；使失业◆displaced workers辞退的工人