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Meaning of displace

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

displace

Pronunciation:/dɪsˈpleɪs/

verb

Definitions

  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.

    Example: Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.