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Meanings of displace in English
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
Portuguese
substituir Spanish
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Examples for "uproot"
Examples for "uproot"
1
You cannot uproot all of my work without tearing down every building.
2
This is home to Liz, and I don't want to uproot her.
3
Man is like a plant which perishes when the storms uproot it.
4
He would uproot the forest trees and tear the roofs from the houses.
5
They did not uproot one type of civilisation in order to plant another.
1
No one by taking thought, can deracinate the mental habits of, say, twenty years.
2
To deracinate Lowell was impossible, and it was for this very reason that he became so serviceable an international personage.
3
It is not too florid to argue that effective machinery to investigate and deracinate corruption is at the heart of a fair and functioning democracy.
4
He simply nodded, feeling quite deracinated by Toussaint's remark, as if he no longer belonged to any category.
5
It was frightening, deracinating.
Usage of displace in English
1
What the Minister calls for will displace the bulge to another location.
2
The shame within him seemed to displace his strength and his manhood.
3
The skinks compete with native species and were starting to displace them.
4
From this day henceforth you shall live with those whom I displace.
5
Where Greek civilization had been firmly established, Latin could nowhere displace it.
6
She doesn't displace the top of the ticket because veeps never do.
7
If jealous of your sweetheart, you will seek to displace a rival.
8
O if idols e'er displace him, Tear them from his chosen throne!
9
In other words, how much water do you think animals displace?
10
That would displace coal and natural gas, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
11
All new species displace species that could not compete with them.
12
The dam suffered delays after a campaign arguing it would displace local people.
13
Take care that you do not displace the numbers in opening the package.
14
Lin wanted to displace Isaac's concerns for her, for a time.
15
The sword was to displace the pen, the hero the poet.
16
But it doesn't actually have to displace social networks to succeed.
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