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displace

/dis-pleys/US // dɪsˈpleɪs //UK // (dɪsˈpleɪs) //

置换,取代,转移,换位

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·placed, dis·plac·ing.

    • : to compel to leave home, country, etc.
    • : to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
    • : to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.
    • : to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
    • : Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbremove from position of responsibility
Forms: displaced

Examples

  • When modern humans arrived on the scene in Eurasia, our numbers grew larger, we spread even further, and the Neanderthals and Denisovans ended up displaced and eventually extinct.

  • More than 50 people were displaced after a fire tore through an apartment building in Montgomery County.

  • That’s because road salts displace minerals in soil and groundwater, creating a condition known as physiological drought.

  • Meanwhile, the threat of being displaced by machines doesn’t improve worker efficiency.

  • Helena’s compassion saves Radius from the stamping mill, and he later leads the robot revolution that displaces the humans from power.

  • The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.

  • But as machines continue to displace humans in a range of fields, they may exacerbate our structural problems with jobs growth.

  • And yet stories of individual acts of kindness and bravery are beginning to displace the horror.

  • The damaged Monson home of two college-aged sisters, rendered unlivable, would displace their family for a year.

  • As someone who rejects that view, play futurist for a second: What kind of technologies could displace the Internet?

  • There is much controversy as to whether stop-keys will eventually displace the older fashioned draw-knobs.

  • How well united you were in the choice of me I never was informed, and how soon attempts may be made to displace me I know not.

  • She had to displace her guitar from the sofa on which she had left it, to make room for her uncle to sit by her side.

  • Friendship between men is a beautiful thing, but of such delicate poise that only the touch of a finger is needed to displace it.

  • As the public expenses displace labour without increasing it, a second serious presumption presents itself against them.