displace

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /dɪsˈpleɪs/, /dɪzˈpleɪs/
• (America) IPA: /dɪsˈpleɪs/

Verb

displace (displaces, present participle displacing; past and past participle displaced)

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
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. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) to repress
   • Megan Garber (2017), “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic‎: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

Translations

• German: umsiedeln, vertreiben, verschieben, verlagern
• Portuguese: deslocar
• Spanish: desahuciar, desplazar, desterrar

Translations

• German: verdrängen
• Italian: rimpiazzare, sostituire
• Spanish: desplazar, reprimir (psycology)

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