Displace

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Displace \Dis*place"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Displaced}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Displacing}.] [Pref. dis- + place: cf. F.
     d['e]placer.]
     1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper
        place; to put out of place; to place in another situation;
        as, the books in the library are all displaced.


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     2. To crowd out; to take the place of.
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              Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those
              seas.                                 --London
                                                    Times.
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     3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to
        discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the
        revenue.
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     4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.]
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              You have displaced the mirth.         --Shak.
  
     Syn: To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  displace
       v 1: take the place of
       2: force to move; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
          [syn: {force out}]
       3: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
          foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
          {uproot}, {deracinate}]
       4: cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense;
          "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my
          money to another bank"; "The director moved more
          responsibilities onto his new assistant" [syn: {move}]
       5: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously
          occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into
          her office space" [syn: {dislodge}, {bump}]
       6: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The
          colonists displaced the natives" [syn: {dislocate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  137 Moby Thesaurus words for "displace":
     act for, attend, banish, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can,
     carry away, carry off, cart away, cashier, change places with,
     come after, crowd out, cut out, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade,
     delocalize, demote, deplume, deport, depose, deprive, dethrone,
     disarrange, disarticulate, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy,
     disenthrone, disjoint, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, disorder,
     displume, disturb, double for, drum out, eject, emanate, ensue,
     evict, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, fill in for, fire,
     follow after, follow up, furlough, ghost, ghostwrite, give the ax,
     give the gate, go after, issue, kick, kick out, kick upstairs,
     lay aside, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, luxate,
     make redundant, manhandle, misplace, move, oust, overtake,
     overthrow, pension, pension off, pinch-hit, purge, put aside,
     read out of, release, relegate, relieve, relocate, remove,
     remove from office, replace, represent, result, retire, sack, send,
     separate forcibly, set aside, shift, shunt, side, spell, spell off,
     stand in for, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, subrogate,
     substitute for, succeed, superannuate, supersede, supervene,
     supplant, surplus, suspend, swap places with, take away, throw out,
     track, trail, transfer, transport, turn off, turn out, unchurch,
     uncrown, understudy for, unfrock, unhinge, unjoint, unmake,
     unsaddle, unseat, unsettle, unthrone, usurp