ALL meanings of displace
dis·place
D d - verb with object displace to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc. 1
- verb with object displace to move or put out of the usual or proper place. 1
- verb with object displace to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact. 1
- verb with object displace to remove from a position, office, or dignity. 1
- verb with object displace Obsolete. to rid oneself of. 1
- noun displace Take over the place, position, or role of (someone or something). 1
- transitive verb displace water, liquid: move 1
- transitive verb displace person: exile 1
- transitive verb displace replace, supplant 1
- verb displace If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself. 0
- verb displace If a person or group of people is displaced, they are forced to moved away from the area where they live. 0
- verb displace to move from the usual or correct location 0
- verb displace to remove from office or employment 0
- verb displace to occupy the place of; replace; supplant 0
- verb displace To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland. 0
- verb displace to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war 0
- verb displace To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute. 0
- verb displace to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group 0
- verb displace (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced. 0
- verb displace to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density) 0
- verb transitive displace to move from its usual or proper place 0
- verb transitive displace to remove from office; discharge 0
- verb transitive displace to take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause of or occasion for removing, pushing aside, etc.) 0