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syrjäyttää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • displace verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
  • leapfrog noun A children's game in which players take turns vaulting over each other's stooped backs.
  • marginalize verb To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
  • override verb To take priority over, or cancel out, an existing decision, rule, or system.
  • proscribe verb To forbid or prohibit.
  • trump noun In card games, a suit chosen (or turned up) to rank higher than the other three for that hand.

Senses

syrjäyttää is used for these senses in English:

  • displace (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • leapfrog (transitive) To overtake.
  • marginalize (transitive) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
  • override (object-oriented, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
  • proscribe (transitive) To banish or exclude.
  • trump (transitive) To supersede.

displace — full definition

  1. verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
  2. verb To take the place of something or someone, often by being better suited.
  3. verb To move something out of its normal or original position.

leapfrog — full definition

  1. noun A children's game in which players take turns vaulting over each other's stooped backs.
  2. verb To overtake or advance past something or someone by skipping ahead, often repeatedly.

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