displaced

[ dis-pleyst ]

/ dɪsˈpleɪst /

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adjective

lacking a home, country, etc.

moved or put out of the usual or proper place.

noun

(used with a plural verb) persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources (usually preceded by the): After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.

Words nearby displaced

dispirit, dispirited, dispiriting, dispiteous, displace, displaced, displaced homemaker, displaced person, displacement, displacement activity, displacement current

Origin of displaced

First recorded in 1565–75; displace + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM displaced

un·dis·placed, adjective

Definition for displaced (2 of 2)

displace

[ dis-pleys ]

/ dɪsˈpleɪs /

verb (used with object), dis·placed, dis·plac·ing.

to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.

to move or put out of the usual or proper place.

to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.

to remove from a position, office, or dignity.

Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

Origin of displace

1545–55; dis-¹ + place, perhaps modeled on Middle French desplacer

SYNONYMS FOR displace

2 relocate.

4 depose, oust, dismiss.

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OTHER WORDS FROM displace

dis·place·a·ble, adjectivepre·dis·place, verb (used with object), pre·dis·placed, pre·dis·plac·ing.un·dis·place·a·ble, adjective

synonym study for displace

2. 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.

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Examples from the Web for displaced

The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians.
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS|Jamie Dettmer|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now that he and his family are displaced and the risks have escalated he wants to leave.
Obama Went to War to Save Them, But They Can’t Get U.S. Visas|Christine van den Toorn, Sherizaan Minwalla|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Displaced girls, especially, face the triple jeopardy of war, domestic violence and attacks from neighboring men.
The Young Girls Escaping the ISIS War|Chandra Kellison|September 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Reality shows are as tightly storylined and produced as drama, the genre they displaced.
‘The Real Housewives of New York City’ Loses a Leg in Sixth-Season Finale|Tim Teeman|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When you look at Iraq, some people say 200,000 civilians have died there and millions have been displaced.
Mark Ruffalo Blasts Iraq’s GOP Warmongers, Talks ‘Begin Again’ and ‘Avengers’|Marlow Stern|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He deposited the corpse in the hole, throwing back the sand which he had displaced, and thus completed his Christian task.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf|George W. M. Reynolds
To his amazement, the displaced leaves revealed a box covered with morocco leather.
The Woman's Way|Charles Garvice
An abdominal or pelvic tumor may be pushed out of the way of the compressed bowel, a cyst punctured, a displaced womb replaced.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various
The flexor and extensor tendons and the sesamoid bones are displaced laterally.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
The king's son Adad-nirari was involved in it, but it is not certain whether or not he displaced his father for a time.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for displaced

displace

/ (dɪsˈpleɪs) /

verb (tr)

to move from the usual or correct location

to remove from office or employment

to occupy the place of; replace; supplant

to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war

chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group

physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)

Derived forms of displace

displaceable, adjectivedisplacer, noun

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