decentre

From de- +‎ centre.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈsɛntə(ɹ)/

decentre (third-person singular simple present decentres, present participle decentring, simple past and past participle decentred)

1. To remove the centre from.
2. (optics) To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
3. To displace from the centre.
   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 14:

     The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.

• centered, decenter