displaces
Saydis-PLAYS-iz/dɪsˈpleɪsɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of displace.
Each rising flood displaces thousands of residents along the river valley.
A submerged object displaces a volume of fluid equal to its own size.
Note
A ship's size is often stated with this form: a vessel displaces so many tons, meaning it weighs as much as the water it pushes aside. The same form carries the human sense, where war or flood displaces families from their homeland, and the sense of replacement, where a better method displaces an older one. With I, you, we or they, the base form displace returns.
displaces 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 → displaces: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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