Meaning

6 senses
  1. To put out of place; to disarrange.

  2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

    umsiedeln, vertreiben, verschieben

    переміщатиperemiščaty, перемісти́тиperemistýty

  3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

    verdrängen

    витіснятиvytisnjaty, заміщатиzamiščaty

    take the place of or have precedence over

  4. 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.

  5. To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

  6. To repress.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. What language, if any, will displace English as the world's lingua franca?

    Яка мова, якщо це взагалі станеться, буде наступною «лінгва франка» сучасного світу замість англійської?

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  2. Will the mission help displaced families?

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  3. This technology will undoubtedly displace millions of jobs.

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  4. Mary offered child care services for displaced families.

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  5. Dozens of thousands of people are displaced by war.

    ruДесятки тысяч людей вынуждены покинуть свои дома из-за войны.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to move something or someone:
to supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to move something or someone:
to supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute:

Origin

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

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Forms

displaces, displacing, displaced, displaced
Base formdisplace · to displace
3rd person singulardisplaces
Present participledisplacing
Past simpledisplaced
Past participledisplaced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydisplace
he, she, itdisplaces

Past simpleLesson

all personsdisplaced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave displaced
he, she, ithas displaced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill displace

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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