displace

Verb

displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.

   Synonyms:

   outplace

2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
   • Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state2023 May 8, “Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state”, in BBC News
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.1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 13
5. To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. To repress.
   • Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.2017, Megan Garber, “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic