Definition of "displace" in English

verb

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.