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Webster 1913 Edition


Displant

Dis-plant′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Displanted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Displanting
.]
[Pref.
dis-
+
plant
: cf. OF.
desplanter
, F.
déplanter
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Displant

DISPLANT

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and plant.]
1.
To pluck up or to remove a plant.
2.
To drive away or remove from the usual place of residence; as, to displant the people of a country.
3.
To strip of inhabitants; as, to displant a country.

Definition 2024


displant

displant

English

Verb

displant (third-person singular simple present displants, present participle displanting, simple past and past participle displanted)

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

Translations

References

  • Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131