Displace

Quick meaning: Displace is a verb meaning To put out of place; to disarrange.

Meaning

To put out of place; to disarrange.

More Meanings

1. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
2. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
3. To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
4. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
5. (psychology) To repress.

Example Sentences

Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.

Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state

All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.

Word Forms

• displaces
• displacing
• displaced

Synonyms for displace

Depending on context, synonyms include outplace, move, dislodge, uproot, deracinate, dislocate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dislocate, dislodge, deracinate, uproot, move, bump.

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