displace
verb (used with object)
to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
was displacing
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past progressiveof displace.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Puren said it was too early to say whether Omicron was displacing Delta in South Africa, since local scientists have only produced 87 sequences of Omicron so far.
From Reuters ● Nov. 30, 2021
The blood in his brain was displacing gray matter, and this small compression of physical stuff—a few ounces of wrinkled tissue, hardly more substantial than cotton wadding—had spirited him away to a parallel universe.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
But sadly the Salafism of the Islamic State was displacing the Sufism of Rafi.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2015
When the president took to the links on Sunday, he had no idea that he was displacing the couple, the official said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2014
In the moonlight I laboured still, and a slow business it was, displacing the earth a handful at a time, and scratching with the Indian knife that Atupo, the priest, had given me.
From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Charles Gilson
