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'displace' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'displace' with 3 example sentences.


displace verb

: cause to move, usually with force or pressure

: take the place of or have precedence over

: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense


  • What language, if any, will displace English as the world's lingua franca?
  • The villagers were displaced by the construction of a dam.
  • The Anglo-Saxons displaced the Celts.
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