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Displace


DISPLACE, verb transitive [dis and place.]

1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

2. To remove from any state, condition, office or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

3. To disorder.

You have displaced the mirth.