verdrängen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- displace verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
- oust verb To force someone out of a position of power or place, often against their will.
- remove verb To take something away from its place.
- supersede verb To take the place of something older or less effective, so that the earlier version is no longer used or valid.
- supplant verb To take over the position that something or someone else used to have.
Senses
verdrängen is used for these senses in English:
- bottle up (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
- displace To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- oust (transitive) To expel; to remove.
- outcompete To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources.
- remove (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- supersede (transitive) To displace in favor of itself.
- supplant (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, 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.
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