DISPLANT

Etymology

Verb

displant (third-person singular simple present displants, present participle displanting, simple past and past participle displanted)

(transitive, archaic) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home.

Synonyms

• displace

Source: Wiktionary


Dis*plant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Di; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter.]

1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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