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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.
Related forms
dis·place·a·ble, adjective
pre·dis·place, verb (used with object), -placed, -plac·ing.
un·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.
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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Word Origin & History
displace
1550s, from O.Fr. desplacer, from des- "dis-" + placer "to place." Related: Displaced. Displaced person refugee is from 1944.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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