Meaning & use
displace
To force someone or something to move from its usual place or position, often replacing it.
See it in a sentence
Rising floodwaters displaced thousands of families from their homes along the river.
New software quickly displaced the outdated system that the office had used for a decade.
A note on using this word
Displace often appears in contexts of natural disasters, war (displaced persons), or one thing being replaced by another.
Words with a similar meaning
dislodgesupplant
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