displace

Verb

Verb Forms: displaced, displacing, displaces

• To move from its usual or proper place.
• cause to move, usually with force or pressure
  • "the refugees were displaced by the war"
• take the place of or have precedence over
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
• cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
• 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.
• To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• To repress.

Examples

• Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.
• My strategic play managed to DISPLACE my opponent’s access to the triple letter score.

Synonyms

can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, move, preempt, sack, send away, terminate, outplace

Antonyms

hire