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To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

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  1. v. t. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.
  2. v. t. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.
  3. 1. To word/remove">remove (what is word/planted">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.
  4. v. t. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. v. t. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants.