Displant

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home. archaic, transitive

    "[…] Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more."

Example

More examples

"[…] Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more."

Etymology

From dis- + plant.

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