displace

displace
01. Hundreds of people and their homes were [displaced] to make way for the new highway.
02. The explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003 [displaced] the U.S. - Iraq conflict from the headlines for a few days.
03. It's a classic case of [displaced] anger. You have trouble at work, so you come home, and yell at me.
04. Tourism has [displaced] fishing as this state's principal source of revenue.
05. The UN will have to deal with the thousands of people who have been [displaced] by the war.
06. Iginla has [displaced] Sakic as the league's leading scorer.
07. The forced [displacement] of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War is one of the most shameful chapters in that country's history.
08. Millions of people in my country have been [displaced] by a huge hydro-electric project.
09. Thousands of people who were [displaced] by the events in Kosovo during the 1990s have since returned to their homes.
10. The native people fear their culture is being [displaced] by that of the newcomers to our land.
11. Many of the big-name beer brands are being [displaced] by locally-made micro-brewery beers, which are becoming increasingly popular because of their superior quality.
12. More than a million people will be [displaced] as a result of this hydroelectric project.
13. Mary Ashton Livermore once suggested that humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being [displaced], and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.
14. As male buffalo get older, and are [displaced] by new dominant males, they leave the herd, and live on their own.
15. The police have been arresting drug dealers in the East End, but residents complain such action will only result in the [displacement] of this kind of criminal activity from one area to another.
16. According to the United Nations, the majority of [displaced] persons and refugees are women and children.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Displace Me — was a nationwide event hosted by the nonprofit Invisible Children Inc. on April 28, 2007. In 15 cities across the United States, 68,000 individuals came together to raise awareness about the situation of the displacement camps in northern Uganda …   Wikipedia

  • Displace — Dis*place , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Displaced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Displacing}.] [Pref. dis + place: cf. F. d[ e]placer.] 1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • displace — DISPLÁCE vb. III v. displăcea. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  DISPLÁCE vb. III. v. displăcea. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN …   Dicționar Român

  • displace — [v1] move, remove from normal place change, crowd out, derange, disarrange, disestablish, dislocate, dislodge, displant, dispossess, disturb, eject, evict, expel, expulse, force out, lose, mislay, misplace, relegate, shift, transpose, unsettle,… …   New thesaurus

  • displace — I (remove) verb banish, carry away, cart away, cast out, change the place of, clear away, convey, delocalize, deport, detach, discard, discharge, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, disperse, dispossess, disturb, eject, evict, exclude, exile …   Law dictionary

  • displace — 1550s, from M.Fr. desplacer (15c.), from des (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + placer to place. Related: Displaced; displacing. Displaced person “refugee” is from 1944 …   Etymology dictionary

  • displace — supplant, *replace, supersede Analogous words: transpose, *reverse. invert: shift, remove, transfer, *move: derange, disarrange, *disorder: *eject, oust, expel, dismiss …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • displace — ► VERB 1) shift from the proper or usual position. 2) take over the place, position, or role of. 3) (especially of war or natural disaster) force (someone) to leave their home …   English terms dictionary

  • displace — [dis plās′, dis′plās] vt. displaced, displacing [OFr desplacer: see DIS & PLACE] 1. to move from its usual or proper place 2. to remove from office; discharge 3. to take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause… …   English World dictionary

  • displace — displaceable, adj. /dis plays /, v.t., displaced, displacing. 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.… …   Universalium

  • displace — UK [dɪsˈpleɪs] / US verb [transitive] Word forms displace : present tense I/you/we/they displace he/she/it displaces present participle displacing past tense displaced past participle displaced 1) to force someone to leave their own country and… …   English dictionary

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