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 push a person or group to the edges of society, giving them less power, attention or importance.
- override verb To take priority over, or cancel out, an existing decision, rule, or system.
- proscribe verb To ban something officially.
- 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
- verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
- verb To take the place of something or someone, often by being better suited.
- verb To move something out of its normal or original position.
leapfrog — full definition
- noun A children's game in which players take turns vaulting over each other's stooped backs.
- verb To overtake or advance past something or someone by skipping ahead, often repeatedly.
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