verb
Meaning 1
To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Examples
- 1844, Court of Common Pleas, May v. Taylor, 3 June, 1843 in The Jurist, London: V. & R. Stevens & G.S. Norton, Volume 7, Part 2, p. 515, [...] with respect to the particular question of five acres of ground being displanted of hops, the jury knew that the peculiar blight, called the wire-worm, was contagious, and that since it had got into some of the plants, the best thing that could be done for the rest of the garden, was to grub up the bine which was injured.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided