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Definition: Displanting
Displant
\Dis*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Di?planted; p. pr.
& vb. n.
Displanting.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF.
desplanter, F. d['e]planter.]
1. 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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I did not think a look,
Or a poor word or two, could have displanted
Such a fixed constancy. --Beau. & Fl.
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2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a
country of inhabitants. --Spenser.
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