All 4 Uses
displace
in
Dune
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- Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace.†
Book 2 *displaced = forced to move
- Paul caught himself in a stumble, sensing an arrested instant of time, remembering a fragment, a visual projection of prescience—but it was displaced, like a montage in motion.†
Book 2
- Instead, from beneath a displaced pattern of hangings, he saw two young boys—perhaps aged nine and ten—staring out at him with greedy eyes.†
Book 2
- Subtle signs of a struggle greeted them here — a suspensor lamp displaced, a bedcushion on the floor, a soother-reel spilled open across a bedstand.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(displace) force to move; or to take the place of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)