Displace

(verb.) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; 'the refugees were displaced by the war'.

(verb.) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; 'The boss fired his secretary today'; 'The company terminated 25% of its workers'.

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• When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• If a machine is made that will in an hour do the work that formerly required several days’ hand labor that machine is certain to displace that hand labor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Someone may have shaken the box and displaced it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She began to arrange a locket-ribbon about my neck, she displaced and replaced the comb in my hair; while thus busied, Graham entered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr. Shepard went on to state that the chemical meters were gradually displaced, and that on September 1, 1898, there were on the system 5619 mechanical and 4874 chemical. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The new love was displacing her already from her place as first in his heart. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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