displace

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 1.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. verb To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
3. verb To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
4. verb To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

   Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

5. verb To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. verb To repress.

Similar words

dislocate dislodge force out deracinate uproot move bump displacement disassociate dispel

Often followed by

the a it them him or and their all

Word family

displaceable displaced displacement displaces displacing