displace.
To put out of place; to disarrange.
Meaning & usage
To put out of place; to disarrange.
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
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.
To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
To repress.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).
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