displace

Verb

Meaning

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

To crowd out; to take the place of.

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

move dismiss fire transfer replace remove shift overthrow terminate sack relocate expel dislodge oust supplant
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Antonyms

cotter bung class baccalaureate christen group
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Hypernyms

move remove replace supplant supersede supervene upon

Hyponyms

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Derivatives

displaced displacing

Examples

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. E. F. Schumacher

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years. Stephen Jay Gould

Cute,” she said, smiling. "If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. Roger Zelazny

Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids. Robert Grosseteste

A person disconnected from empathy is a sociopath, but making that all about the president is to displace our outrage & responsibility from where it belongs. Our public policies have lacked empathy for decades. He did not create the spiritual void; the spiritual void created him. Marianne Williamson

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. Rick Perry

Close letter words and terms

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