displace

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪs/, /dɪzˈpleɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

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

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
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.

5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) to repress
   • Megan Garber (2017), “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic‎: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

• displacement
• displacive
• displaceable