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displaced

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dis·place  (ds-pls)
tr.v. dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es
1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.
2. To take the place of; supplant.
3. To discharge from an office or position.
dis·placea·ble adj.
dis·placer n.
Translations
displaced [dɪsˈpleɪst] ADJ displaced person → desplazado/a m/f
displaced [dɪsˈpleɪst] adj [worker, resident] → déplacé(e) displaced person
displaced person n → personne f déplacée
displaced:
displaced emotion
n → verlagertes Gefühl
displaced person
n → Vertriebene(r) mf


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As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
For it had not been very long prior to the Pequod's sailing from Nantucket, that he had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible; by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
A single moment's vigilance relaxed, a blanket displaced, a dose of brandy forgotten, and Trent might have walked this life a multi-millionaire, a peer, a little god amongst his fellows, freed for ever from all anxiety.
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