displace
verb (used with object)
to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
had been displacing
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past perfect progressiveof displace.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For a period they were the overlords of the Hebrews, who had been displacing the older inhabitants of the "Promised Land", and appear to have been armed with weapons of iron.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
