displace

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To put out of place

   To put out of place; to disarrange.

2. 2

   To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

   • Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state
3. 3

   To supplant, or take the place of something or someone

   To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

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   1. 4

      To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being…

      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.
      • All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.
   2. 5

      To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

   3. 6

      To repress.

      • Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.

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