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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 the place of; to replace, to supersede.

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

  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.

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