Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pluck up; dislodge from a state of being planted, settled, or fixed.
- To strip of what is planted, settled, or established: as, to
displant a country of inhabitants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out.
- transitive verb To strip of what is planted or settled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove anything from where it has been
planted orplaced ; to drive one from one'shome .
Etymologies
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dis- + plant
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Examples
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And because, said he, they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called Eparacano, whom they have christened Don Juan, and his son Don Pedro, whom they have also apparelled and armed, by whom they seek to make a party against me in mine own country.
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_And because_, said he, _they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called
The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586
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