deplace

English

Etymology

From French déplacer (“to move, displace”).

Verb

deplace (third-person singular simple present deplaces, present participle deplacing, simple past and past participle deplaced)

1. (transitive, rare) To displace.
   • 1982, Sherrell J. Aston, Albert Hornblass, Murray A. Meltzer, et al., editors, Third International Symposium of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Eye and Adnexa, Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins Co., →ISBN, page 116:

     Even without mobilization of the bone, the median eyelid angle can be deplaced in the nasal direction. For this purpose, we inserted a heart-shaped cartilage implant, curved toward the caruncula.