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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Displant \Dis*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Di?planted}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Displanting}.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF.
     desplanter, F. d['e]planter.]
     1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take
        away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant
        inhabitants.


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              I did not think a look,
              Or a poor word or two, could have displanted
              Such a fixed constancy.               --Beau. & Fl.
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     2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a
        country of inhabitants. --Spenser.
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