Antonyms for displace
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dis-pleys |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈpleɪs |
Definition of displace
Origin :- 1550s, from Middle French desplacer (15c.), from des- (see dis-) + placer "to place." Related: Displaced; displacing. Displaced person "refugee" is from 1944.
- verb move, remove from normal place
- verb remove from position of responsibility
- Gates endeavored to displace Washington, but ruined himself in the attempt.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- There was an interval of slight awkwardness, which Susy endeavored to displace.
- Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
- We floated like corks, we were so light, and so little water did we displace.
- Extract from : « Wandl the Invader » by Raymond King Cummings
- The yellow newspapers thrive and displace all the others because he likes them.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- The nation did not send them to displace, but to support me.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II » by Fleury de Chaboulon.
- He was sure that he, the stranger, had been a fool to imagine that he could ever displace Phil.
- Extract from : « The Trail of the Hawk » by Sinclair Lewis
- The Hornblower engine had been heralded as sure to displace the Watt.
- Extract from : « James Watt » by Andrew Carnegie
- "In the name of the people, I am sent to displace and to succeed you," was the answer.
- Extract from : « Edmond Dants » by Edmund Flagg
- The tonnage of man is estimated by the amount of whiskey he can displace in a day.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain's Speeches » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- In this position they try to displace each other by shouldering.
- Extract from : « Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium » by Jessie H. Bancroft
Synonyms for displace
- banish
- can
- cashier
- change
- crowd out
- cut out
- deport
- depose
- derange
- dethrone
- disarrange
- discard
- discharge
- discrown
- disenthrone
- disestablish
- dislocate
- dislodge
- dismiss
- displant
- dispossess
- disthrone
- disturb
- eject
- evict
- exile
- expatriate
- expel
- expulse
- fire
- force out
- lose
- mislay
- misplace
- oust
- relegate
- remove
- replace
- sack
- shift
- step into shoes of
- succeed
- supersede
- supplant
- take over
- take the place of
- transport
- transpose
- uncrown
- unmake
- unsettle
- uproot
- usurp
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