displace

English

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪs/, /dɪzˈpleɪs/

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• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpleɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

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.
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.
   • 2017, Megan Garber, “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.

Derived terms

• displaceable
• displacement
• displacive

 

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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: elmozdít (hu), kimozdít (hu), (push/squeeze out) kiszorít (hu), (relocate, resettle) kitelepít (hu)
• Ido: diplasar (io), desplasizar (io)
• Portuguese: deslocar (pt)
• Spanish: desahuciar (es), desplazar (es), desterrar (es)
• Ukrainian: переміщати (peremiščaty)

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

• Bulgarian: замествам (bg) (zamestvam)
• Catalan: suplantar (ca)
• Finnish: korvata (fi)
• German: verdrängen (de)
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• Hungarian: helyettesít (hu), behelyettesít (hu), felvált (hu), helyébe lép, átveszi a helyét
• Italian: rimpiazzare (it), sostituire (it)
• Spanish: desplazar (es), reprimir (es) (psychology)
• Ukrainian: витісняти (vytisnjaty), заміщати (zamiščaty)

to have a weight equal to that of the water displaced

• Bulgarian: измествам (bg) (izmestvam)
• Catalan: desplaçar (ca), desallotjar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: syrjäyttää (fi)
• Hungarian: kiszorít (hu)

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• Maori: ^{(please verify)} whakanuku