Dictionary entry

Displant

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐plant″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Di�planted; p. pr. & vb. n.Displanting.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter.] 1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

I did not think a look,

Or a poor word or two, could have displanted

Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.