DISPLACE, verb transitive [dis and place.] 1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced. 2. To remove from any state, condition, office or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. 3. To disorder. You have displaced the mirth.
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