displaced








adjective

  1. lacking a home, country, etc.
  2. moved or put out of the usual or proper place.

noun

  1. (used with a plural verb) persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources (usually preceded by the): After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.

verb (used with object), dis·placed, dis·plac·ing.

  1. to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
  2. to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
  3. to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.
  4. to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
  5. Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

verb (tr)

  1. to move from the usual or correct location
  2. to remove from office or employment
  3. to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
  4. to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war
  5. chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group
  6. physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)
v.

1550s, from Middle French desplacer (15c.), from des- (see dis-) + placer “to place.” Related: Displaced; displacing. Displaced person “refugee” is from 1944.

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