displant
Americanverb (used with object)
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to dislodge.
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to transplant.
verb
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to displace
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to transplant (a plant)
Etymology
Origin of displant
1485–95; dis- 1 + plant, modeled on Middle French desplanter
Example Sentences
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Displant, dis-plant′, v.t. to remove anything from where it has been planted or placed: to drive from an abode.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
These compliments, two months old, may last week have turned to ashes for President Pease when he heard no authoritative Amherst voice sound forth to deny that, a "good" man having just been found, a "great" man might almost immediately displant him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more!”
From Project Gutenberg
And because, said he, they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called Eparacano, whom they have christened Don Juan, and his son Don Pedro, whom they have also apparelled and armed, by whom they seek to make a party against me in mine own country.
From Project Gutenberg
Yet banished? hang vp Philosophie: Vnlesse Philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, It helpes not, it preuailes not, talke no more Fri.
From Project Gutenberg
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