displace

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈpleɪs/ (UK)
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/dɪsˈpleɪs/ (UK) · /dɪzˈpleɪs/ (UK) · /dɪsˈpleɪs/ (US)

Definition of displace

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
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verb

  1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
  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. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  4. 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.”
  5. To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  6. To repress.
    “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

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