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The correct spelling is displaced.
How to pronounce displaced
verb
Say it like: Dis-pla-sed
The correct spelling is displaced. To put out of place; to disarrange. For example: "Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind."
Usage Examples
“Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.”
Definition
verb
- 1.To put out of place; to disarrange.
- 2.To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- 3.To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- 4.To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- 5.(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
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