- to move from the usual or correct location
- to remove from office or employment
- to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
dis•place /dɪsˈpleɪs/USA pronunciation
v. [~ + object], -placed, -plac•ing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- to compel (someone) to leave home or country:a faceless bureaucracy that displaces the people.
- to move or put out of place:to displace a joint.
- to take the place of;
replace:trying to displace me in my job.
dis•place
(dis plās′),USA pronunciation v.t., -placed, -plac•ing.
dis•place′a•ble, adj.
- to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
- to move or put out of the usual or proper place.
- to take the place of;
replace;
supplant:Fiction displaces fact. - to remove from a position, office, or dignity.
- [Obs.]to rid oneself of.
- dis-1 + place, perh. modeled on Middle French desplacer 1545–55
- 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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displace /dɪsˈpleɪs/ vb (transitive)
'displace' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
dislocate
- dissimilate
- ecstasy
- heave
- luxate
- remove
- transfer
- unseat
- uproot
- valency
- angular displacement
- antevert
- automate
- bump
- displaced
- displacement
- displacement activity
- displacement current
- displacement engine
- displacement hull
- displacement ton
- displacement tonnage
- displacer
- electric displacement
- floating foundation
- light displacement
- load displacement
- misplace
- outplace
- over
- predisplace
- predisplacement
- translocate
- undisplaceable
- unsphere
- upset
- sink
- strike