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How to sign: cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
"Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant";
Similiar / Same: move
Within this category: advance, agitate, beat, blow, brandish, center, change hands, chase away, circulate, circulate, dandle, disarrange, dislocate, displace, drag, drive, drop, engage, expel, expel, exteriorize, flick, fluctuate, funnel, glide, herd, hit, hustle, jar, lateralize, launch, lift, lift, lower, mobilize, overturn, play, pour, press down, propel, pull, pull, pulse, pump, push, put, race, raise, rake, relocate, rock, roll, rout out, run, saltate, scan, send, separate, shift, singsong, sink, slide, spill, spill, station, stir, swing, take back, transfer, transfer, translate, translate, transmit, transport, transport, transport, tug, turn, turn, turn, unseat, unwind, uproot, upstage, wash, wedge, whistle, whoosh, wind, work, work
How to sign: force to move
"the refugees were displaced by the war";
Similiar / Same: force out
Within this category: crowd out, evacuate, transplant
How to sign: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
"The war uprooted many people";
Similiar / Same: uproot, deracinate
Categories: place
How to sign: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship
"The colonists displaced the natives";
Similiar / Same: dislocate
Categories: resettle
