displacing
- 1Present participle and gerund of displace.
The invasive species is rapidly displacing native plants along the riverbank.
Displacing so many residents required months of careful relocation planning.
Note
The -ing form carries every meaning of displace, from shifting an object out of place to forcing people from their homeland. With be it builds the progressive (the new system is displacing the old); standing alone it works as a noun (displacing water is how a hull floats). In the supplanting meaning, the object is whatever gets pushed aside, never the newcomer that does the pushing.
displacing 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
- Spelling
- displace → displacing: drop the e, add -ing
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