displace

[US]/dɪsˈpleɪs/
[UK]/dɪsˈpleɪs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. replace; substitute; transfer; dismiss; drain

Phrases & Collocations

forced displacement

population displacement

Example Sentences

Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.

the perspective of the displaced homemaker.

he seems to have displaced some vertebrae.

The ship displaces 20, 000tons.

He was displaced by another young man.

The war has displaced thousands of people.

thousands of people have been displaced by the civil war.

He displaced a bone in his knee in the crash with another player.

millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.

in the northern states of India, Hindi has largely displaced English.

Methods After designs the trefoil flap in the prolabium, the displaced tissuce is replaced and the columnella is lengthened, the sill is raised by the application of the trefoil flap.

Using 2-acetyl benzimidazole and sodium bromide as raw material,2-(dibromine acetyl)-benzimidazole hydrobromate was synthesized with the new bromine that displaced by chlorine gas in light.

Later, Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations.

Real-world Examples

One person remains missing and 175000 have been displaced.

Source: BBC Listening Collection January 2020

Many of them had been displaced several times before.

Source: NPR News February 2016 Compilation

More than a million people have been displaced.

Source: BBC Listening Collection October 2022

More than 300,000 have been displaced within Sudan.

Source: BBC Listening Collection May 2023

Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced.

Source: BBC Listening of the Month

Thousands have been killed, millions more have been displaced.

Source: CNN 10 Student English September 2022 Collection

So far more than 800,000 people have been displaced.

Source: CCTV Observations

Some 1.4m people have been displaced. Shelters are overflowing.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The U.N. says a million people have been displaced inside Gaza.

Source: This month VOA Daily Standard English

More than 2 million people have been displaced in recent years.

Source: BBC Listening Collection September 2023

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