displace

[ dis-pleys ]
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verb (used with object),dis·placed, dis·plac·ing.
  1. to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.

  2. to move or put out of the usual or proper place.

  1. to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.

  2. to remove from a position, office, or dignity.

  3. Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

Origin of displace

1
1545–55; dis-1 + place, perhaps modeled on Middle French desplacer

synonym study For displace

2. Displace, misplace mean to put something in a different place from where it should be. To displace often means to shift something solid and comparatively immovable, more or less permanently from its place: The flood displaced houses from their foundations. To misplace is to put an object in a wrong place so that it is difficult to find: Papers belonging in the safe were misplaced and temporarily lost.

Other words for displace

Other words from displace

  • dis·place·a·ble, adjective
  • pre·dis·place, verb (used with object), pre·dis·placed, pre·dis·plac·ing.
  • un·dis·place·a·ble, adjective

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How to use displace in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for displace

displace

/ (dɪsˈpleɪs) /


verb(tr)
  1. to move from the usual or correct location

  2. to remove from office or employment

  1. to occupy the place of; replace; supplant

  2. to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war

  3. chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group

  4. physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)

Derived forms of displace

  • displaceable, adjective
  • displacer, noun

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