Dis*plant" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. d'eplanter.]
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.
© Webster 1913.