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displacedisplace /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 |
1to make a group of people or animals have to leave the place where they normally live: An estimated 500,000 refugees have been displaced by the civil war. Flooding caused by the dam may displace up to a million people.2to take the place or position of someone or something else: Compact discs displaced records in the late 1980s. Millions of workers have been displaced by immigrants.3to force something from its usual place or position: The earthquake displaced the water that caused the tsunami. |