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displace

/dɪsˈpleɪs/
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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

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