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dis⋅place

  [dis-pleys]
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–verb (used with object), -placed, -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.
3. to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.
4. to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
5. Obsolete. to rid oneself of.
Origin:
1545–55; dis- 1 + place, perh. modeled on MF desplacer

Related forms:
dis⋅place⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
2. relocate. 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. 4. depose, oust, dismiss.
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dis·place   (dĭs-plās')   
tr.v.   dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es

  1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.

  2. To take the place of; supplant.

  3. To discharge from an office or position.

dis·place'a·ble adj., dis·plac'er n.
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Word Origin & History

displace 
1551, from O.Fr. desplacer, from des- "dis-" + placer "to place."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: dis·place
Pronunciation: (')dis-'plAs
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -placed; -plac·ing
1 a : to remove from the usual or proper place displaced so that patches of gray matter are scattered among the bundles of white fibers —R.L. Cecil et al> b : to shift (an emotion or behavior) from a maladaptive or unacceptable object or form of outlet to a more adaptive or acceptable one <displacepunishable behavior by directing it towards things that cannot punish —B. F. Skinner>
2 : to set free from chemical combination by taking the place of displaces the hydrogen of dilute acids>
3 : to subject to percolation
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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