displace

English

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Derived terms

displacement
displacive
displaceable

Translations

to move something or someone

Catalan: desnonar (ca)
Dutch: onthemen
Finnish: siirtää (fi); pakkosiirtää (move forcibly)
German: umsiedeln (de), vertreiben (de), verschieben (de), verlagern (de)

Ido: diplasar (io), desplasizar (io)
Spanish: desahuciar (es), desplazar (es), desterrar (es)
Ukrainian: переміщати (peremiščaty)

to supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute

Catalan: suplantar (ca)
Finnish: korvata (fi)
German: verdrängen (de)

Spanish: desplazar (es), reprimir (es) (psycology)
Ukrainian: витісняти (vytisnjaty), заміщати (zamiščaty)

have a weight equal to that of the water displaced

Catalan: desplaçar (ca), desallotjar (ca)

Finnish: syrjäyttää (fi)

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Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} измествам (bg) (izmestvam), замествам (bg) (zamestvam)

Maori: ^{(please verify)} whakanuku