displace

[US]/dɪsˈpleɪs/
[UK]/dɪsˈpleɪs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. replace; substitute; transfer; dismiss; drain
Word Forms
Past Participledisplaced
Present Participledisplacing
Pluraldisplaces
Third Person Singulardisplaces
Past Tensedisplaced

Phrases & Collocations

forced displacement

nucený přesun

population displacement

přesídlení obyvatel

Example Sentences

Vibration displaced part of the mechanism.

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the perspective of the displaced homemaker.

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he seems to have displaced some vertebrae.

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The ship displaces 20, 000tons.

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He was displaced by another young man.

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The war has displaced thousands of people.

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thousands of people have been displaced by the civil war.

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He displaced a bone in his knee in the crash with another player.

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millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.

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in the northern states of India, Hindi has largely displaced English.

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Methods After designs the trefoil flap in the prolabium, the displaced tissuce is replaced and the columnella is lengthened, the sill is raised by the application of the trefoil flap.

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Using 2-acetyl benzimidazole and sodium bromide as raw material,2-(dibromine acetyl)-benzimidazole hydrobromate was synthesized with the new bromine that displaced by chlorine gas in light.

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Later, Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations.

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Real-world Examples

One person remains missing and 175000 have been displaced.

Jedna osoba zůstává nezvěstná a 175 000 lidí bylo vysídleno.

Source: BBC Listening Collection January 2020

Many of them had been displaced several times before.

Mnozí z nich byli vysídleni již několikrát.

Source: NPR News February 2016 Compilation

More than a million people have been displaced.

Více než milion lidí bylo vysídleno.

Source: BBC Listening Collection October 2022

More than 300,000 have been displaced within Sudan.

Více než 300 000 lidí bylo vysídleno v Súdánu.

Source: BBC Listening Collection May 2023

Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced.

Desítky tisíc civilistů byly vysídleny.

Source: BBC Listening of the Month

Thousands have been killed, millions more have been displaced.

Tisíce byly zabity, miliony dalších byly vysídleny.

Source: CNN 10 Student English September 2022 Collection

So far more than 800,000 people have been displaced.

Dosud bylo vysídleno více než 800 000 lidí.

Source: CCTV Observations

Some 1.4m people have been displaced. Shelters are overflowing.

Přibližně 1,4 milionu lidí bylo vysídleno. Úkryty jsou přecpané.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The U.N. says a million people have been displaced inside Gaza.

OSN uvádí, že uvnitř Gazy bylo vysídleno milion lidí.

Source: This month VOA Daily Standard English

More than 2 million people have been displaced in recent years.

Více než 2 miliony lidí bylo v posledních letech vysídleno.

Source: BBC Listening Collection September 2023

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