Hyphenation of displacement

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word displacement? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

dis-place-ment

Definitions of displacement:

1.	Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
2.	An event in which something is displaced without rotation
3.	The act of uniform movement
4.	(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
5.	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
6.	To move something from its natural environment
7.	Act of removing from office or employment

Synonyms of displacement:

noun	shift, translation
noun	supplanting, replacement, replacing
noun	translation, motion, movement, move
noun	displacement reaction, chemical reaction, reaction
noun	defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
noun	deracination, movement
noun	rejection

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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