Displace DISPLACE, v.t. [dis and place.]
1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
2. To remove from any state, condition, office or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
3. To disorder.
You have displaced the mirth.

displace v 1: cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" 2: take the place of or have precedence over; "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor" [syn: preempt, displace] 3: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 4: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, 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, displace]

displace 1551, from O.Fr. desplacer, from des- "dis-" + placer "to place."

displace transitive verb Etymology: probably from Middle French desplacer, from des- dis- + place place Date: 1549 1. a. to remove from the usual or proper place; specifically to expel or force to flee from home or homeland <displaced persons> b. to remove from an office, status, or job c. obsolete to drive out ; banish 2. a. to move physically out of position <a floating object displaces water> b. to take the place of (as in a chemical reaction) ; supplant Synonyms: see replace • displaceable adjective

displace
v.tr.
1 shift from its accustomed place.
2 remove from office.
3 take the place of; oust.
Phrases and idioms:
displaced person a person who is forced to leave his or her home country because of war, persecution, etc.; a refugee.

displace (displaces, displacing, displaced) 1. If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself. These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange... VERB: V n 2. If a person or group of people is displaced, they are forced to moved away from the area where they live. In Europe alone thirty million people were displaced... ...the task of resettling refugees and displaced persons. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed

displace dɪsˈpleɪs v.tr. 1 shift from its accustomed place. 2 remove from office. 3 take the place of; oust. ødisplaced person a person who is forced to leave his or her home country because of war, persecution, etc.; a refugee.

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

displace v. a. 1. Move, dislocate, put out of place, change the place of. 2. Remove, dislodge, take out or away. 3. Depose, oust, dismiss, discharge, cashier, remove, eject from office.

displace dɪsˈpleɪs v. 1 move, transfer, shift, relocate, dislocate, misplace, disturb, disarrange, disorder, unsettle: The entire population of the village was displaced when the dam was built. 2 expel, unseat, eject, evict, exile, banish, depose, remove, oust, dismiss, discharge, cashier, Colloq fire, kick or throw out, Brit sack: The voters displaced the corrupt council. 3 take the place of, supplant, replace, supersede, succeed: Watching television has displaced reading in many modern homes.

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

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