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Displant

Displant \Dis*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Di?planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. d['e]planter.]

  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.

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displant

vb. (context transitive English) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive one from one's home.

Usage examples of "displant".

Phillips could not decide when he had first known it Perhaps it had been just a few minutes ago as he had pleaded with Grant, not a spacemen but a displanted Earthman, to spare the Earth.