displace
Americanverb (used with object)
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to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
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to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
- Synonyms:
- relocate
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to take the place of; replace; supplant.
Fiction displaces fact.
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to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
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Obsolete. to rid oneself of.
verb
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to move from the usual or correct location
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to remove from office or employment
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to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
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to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war
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chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group
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physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)
Related Words
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 Word Forms
- displaceable adjective
- displacer noun
- predisplace verb (used with object)
- undisplaceable adjective
Etymology
Origin of displace
1545–55; dis- 1 + place, perhaps modeled on Middle French desplacer
Example Sentences
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“The biggest surprise that would cause me to recalibrate would be autonomous AI agents displacing millions of jobs at the biggest companies,” said the author of the hugely popular Substack publication, Cassandra Unchained.
From MarketWatch
The game also served as a coming out party for a Cowboys rookie quarterback named Dak Prescott, who passed for two touchdowns and eventually displaced Tony Romo as the starter.
From Los Angeles Times
The conflict has left 11 million people displaced internally and across borders, and created the world's largest displacement and hunger crises.
From Barron's
The Kurdish-led SDF - which insists it has no military presence in Aleppo - called it a "criminal attempt" to forcibly displace residents.
From BBC
It was hit in January 2024, and for months afterwards, its grounds served as a shelter for displaced families.
From BBC
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