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displace
English
Etymology
From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?ple?s/, /d?z?ple?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?s?ple?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Verb
displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.
- (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- (psychology) to repress
- Megan Garber (2017) , “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic?[1]: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”
Derived terms
- displacement
- displacive
- displaceable
Translations
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overthrow
English
Pronunciation
- Verb senses:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??v??????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?v????o?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Noun senses:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v?????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?v????o?/
- Hyphenation: over?throw
Etymology 1
From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- +? throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).
For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.
Verb
overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)
- (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
- (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
Derived terms
- overthrowable
- overthrowal
- overthrower
Translations
Noun
overthrow (plural overthrows)
- A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
- (archaic, rare) An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.
Hypernyms
- downfall
Coordinate terms
- collapse
Translations
Etymology 2
over- +? throw.
Verb
overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)
- (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
Translations
Noun
overthrow (plural overthrows)
- (sports) A throw that goes too far.
- (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
- (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
Translations
References
Further reading
- overthrow (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- throw over
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