displaced
- 1Simple past and past participle of displace.
The new factory displaced several old shops along the river.
Workers displaced by automation often struggle to find new jobs.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the simple past of an active sentence and the participle of a passive or perfect one. Because displace ends in a silent -e, it adds only -d, as regular verbs of that shape do. In the passive (workers displaced by automation) the stress falls on whoever was moved or supplanted. In the active past it can also report a vessel's weight, measured by the water it pushed aside.
displaced is a form of displace
displace, verb: To move something or someone from its place, especially to force people to leave their homeland. Full entry
- Forms
- displacedisplaces he/she/itdisplacing -ing formdisplaced past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- displace → displaced: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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