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Displant
Pronunciation : Dis*plant"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. d?planter.]
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Di; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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