displace
Meaning of displace
verb
- 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.
- To repress
Information about displace
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of displace is: displaces.
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Hyphenation of displace
dis-place
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- displace is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
displace synonyms
Meaning uproot:
Meaning preempt:
Meaning move:
Meaning dislodge:
Meaning dislocate:
Translation of displace
- Spanish: trasladar, desplazar, desterrar
- French: déplacer
- Italian: spostare, muovere, rimuovere
- Portuguese: deslocar, desterrar
- German: verdrängen
Words that rhyme with displace
lace, impalace, palace, stalace, Lovelace, anelace, belace, bridelace, curtelace, delace, relace, shoelace, Glace, demiglace, Silace, antimilace, filace, necklace, Wallace, bullace, fallace, anlace, enlace, inlace, unlace, Colace, solace, Laplace, Place, WorkPlace, anyplace, aplace, biplace, birthplace, byplace, commonplace, deplace, emplace, everyplace, farmplace, fireplace, foreplace, homeplace, interplace, marketplace, misplace, monoplace, noplace, outplace, overplace
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