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displacedis‧place /dɪsˈpleɪs/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] VERB TABLEdisplace |
Present | I, you, we, they | displace | | he, she, it | displaces | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | displaced | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have displaced | | he, she, it | has displaced | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had displaced | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will displace | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have displaced |
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Present | I | am displacing | | he, she, it | is displacing | | you, we, they | are displacing | Past | I, he, she, it | was displacing | | you, we, they | were displacing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been displacing | | he, she, it | has been displacing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been displacing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be displacing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been displacing |
- An estimated 500,000 refugees have been displaced by the civil war.
- Compact discs displaced records in the late 1980s.
- Flooding caused by the dam may displace up to a million people.
- Furthermore, such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas.
- In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, the wild roses, the grapevines, the grass, would be back.
- Some of the companies that have been displaced have, in their time, displaced others.
- Spence's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby.
- The high ridge displaces ocean water.
- This dam is going to displace 25,000 Kurds in a war region.
- Thus several measures are available to displace natural gas for a higher use as a facilitator of coal combustion.
NOUN► people· There is the dual danger that scarce financial resources will be displaced and that people will choose analysis over action. ► war· Over 250,000 former government soldiers awaited rehabilitation and 1,500,000 people had been displaced by the war.· Many of its own people have been displaced by civil war or uprooted by drought or flood.· Aid agencies say that about 110,000 people in the peninsula are displaced because of the war. ► worker· In the past, new technology has mainly displaced manual workers.· Often, the government would do better just to pay displaced workers to stay home rather than artificially keep the business afloat. noundisplacementadjectivedisplacedverbdisplace 1to take the place or position of something or someone SYN replace: Coal has been displaced by natural gas as a major source of energy. immigrants who displace US workers in the job market2to make a group of people or animals have to leave the place where they normally live: Fifty thousand people have been displaced by the fighting.3to force something out of its usual place or position: The water displaced by the landslides created a tidal wave.—displaced adjective |