displace

[ dis-pleys ]
/ dɪsˈpleɪs /
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verb (used with object), dis·placed, dis·plac·ing.

to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.
to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

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Origin of displace

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 FROM displace

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

Words nearby displace

dispireme, dispirit, dispirited, dispiriting, dispiteous, displace, displaced, displaced homemaker, displaced person, displacement, displacement activity
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Words related to displace

disturb, expel, lose, uproot, evict, force out, transport, mislay, unsettle, eject, shift, transpose, misplace, dislodge, relegate, change, dispossess, derange, dislocate, disarrange

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British Dictionary definitions for displace

displace
/ (dɪsˈpleɪs) /

verb (tr)

to move from the usual or correct location
to remove from office or employment
to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war
chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group
physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)

Derived forms of displace

displaceable, adjectivedisplacer, noun
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