displace (redirected from displaced)

dis·place  (ds-pls)

tr.v. dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es

1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.

2. To take the place of; supplant.

3. To discharge from an office or position.

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dis·placea·ble adj.

dis·placer n.

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displace

Verb

[-placing, -placed]

1. to move (something) from its usual place

2. to remove (someone) from a post or position of authority

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	displace - cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" dislocate - put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives" dislodge, bump - remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" move, displace - 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" transplant, transfer - lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" crowd out, force out - press, force, or thrust out of a small space; "The weeds crowded out the flowers" evacuate - move people from their homes or country deracinate, uproot - move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
	2.	displace - 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" preempt supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant, replace - take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
	3.	displace - terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, can, force out, dismiss, fire, terminate retire - make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal" pension off - let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" clean out - force out; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" furlough, lay off - dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" squeeze out - force out; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" remove - remove from a position or an office send away, send packing, dismiss, drop - stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"
	4.	displace - 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" move mobilise, mobilize, circulate - cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" relocate - move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high" dislocate, luxate, splay, slip - move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" translate - change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation station, post, send, place - assign to a station raise up, commove, disturb, stir up, vex, shake up, agitate - change the arrangement or position of channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport, transfer - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" funnel - move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle" brandish, wave, flourish - move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun" draw, pull, force - cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" carry, transport - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" tug - move by pulling hard; "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud" disarrange - destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk" lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" mesh, lock, operate, engage - keep engaged; "engaged the gears" propel, impel - cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship" set in motion, launch - get going; give impetus to; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process" twine, wrap, wind, roll - arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" unroll, unwind, wind off - reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn" wedge, squeeze, force - squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" work - move into or onto; "work the raisins into the dough"; "the student worked a few jokes into his presentation"; "work the body onto the flatbed truck" disgorge, shed, spill - cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table" slop, spill, splatter - cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; "spill the milk"; "splatter water" unseat - dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse disunite, separate, part, divide - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" root out, deracinate, extirpate, uproot - pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" press down, depress - press down; "Depress the space key" lift - take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" riffle, ruffle, flick - twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" work - move in an agitated manner; "His fingers worked with tension" take back - move text to the previous line; in printing centre, center - move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered" pump - move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"

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displace

verb 1. replace, succeed, take over from, supersede, oust, usurp, supplant, take the place of, crowd out, fill or step into (someone's) boots

verb 2. force out, turn out, expel, throw out, oust, unsettle, kick out (informal) eject, evict, dislodge, boot out (informal) dispossess, turf out (informal)

verb 3. move, shift, disturb, budge, misplace, disarrange, derange

verb 4. remove, fire (informal) dismiss, sack (informal) discharge, oust, depose, cashier, dethrone, remove from office

Translations

displace [dɪsˈpleɪs] vt [+ person] → desplazar (= replace); reemplazar

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displace [dɪsˈpleɪs] vt → déplacer

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displace [dɪsˈpleɪs] vt → ablösen

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displace [dɪsˈpleɪs] vt → spostare