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All displace synonyms

disΒ·place
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verb displace

  • move β€” to pass from one place or position to another.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • lose β€” to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • uproot β€” to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
  • transport β€” to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • mislay β€” to lose temporarily; misplace: He mislaid his keys.
  • unsettle β€” to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
  • shift β€” to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
  • transpose β€” to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
  • misplace β€” to put in a wrong place.
  • dislodge β€” to remove or force out of a particular place: to dislodge a stone with one's foot.
  • relegate β€” to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
  • change β€” If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
  • dispossess β€” to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
  • derange β€” to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
  • dislocate β€” to put out of place; put out of proper relative position; displace: The glacier dislocated great stones. The earthquake dislocated several buildings.
  • disarrange β€” to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
  • disestablish β€” to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • depose β€” If a ruler or political leader is deposed, they are forced to give up their position.
  • sack β€” a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.
  • replace β€” to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • supplant β€” to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • fire β€” combustion
  • dismiss β€” to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.
  • cashier β€” A cashier is a person who customers pay money to or get money from in places such as shops or banks.
  • succeed β€” to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
  • usurp β€” to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
  • discharge β€” to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • deport β€” If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there.
  • banish β€” If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
  • oust β€” to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
  • supersede β€” to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
  • remove β€” to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
  • can β€” You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
  • discard β€” to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • dethrone β€” If a king, queen, or other powerful person is dethroned, they are removed from their position of power.
  • unmake β€” to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
  • displant β€” to dislodge.
  • cut out β€” If you cut something out, you remove or separate it from what surrounds it using scissors or a knife.
  • discrown β€” to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
  • disenthrone β€” to dethrone.
  • take over β€” the act of taking.
  • uncrown β€” to deprive or divest of a crown.
  • relocate β€” to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
  • transfer β€” to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
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