Synonyms of the word

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

bump

• n. A light blow or jolting collision.
• n. The sound of such a collision.
• n. A protuberance on a level surface.
• n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
• n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
• n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
• n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
• n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
• n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
• n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
• n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
• n. A coarse cotton fabric.
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.
• n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
• v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
• v. To move up or down by a step.
• v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
• v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
• v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
• v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
• v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
• interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

deracinate

• v. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
• v. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

dislocate

• v. to put something out of its usual place.
• v. (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint.

dislodge

• v. (transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To force out of a secure or settled position.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

eject

• v. (transitive) To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
• v. (transitive) To throw out or remove forcefully.
• v. (US, transitive) To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour.
• v. (intransitive) To project oneself from an aircraft.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come out of a machine.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of a machine.
• n. (uncountable) A button on a machine that causes something to be ejected from the machine.
• n. (psychology, countable) (by analogy with subject and object) an inferred object of someone else's consciousness.

exclude

• v. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
• v. To expel; to put out.
• v. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
• v. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

preempt

• v. (transitive) to appropriate something (before someone else does).
• v. (transitive) to displace something, or take precedence over something.
• v. (bridge, intransitive) to make a preemptive bid at bridge.

replace

• v. (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back.
• v. (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore.
• v. (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
• v. (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
• v. (transitive) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
• v. (transitive, rare) To place again.
• v. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

resettle

• v. (intransitive) to settle in a different place.
• v. (transitive) to force someone to settle in a different place.

supercede

• v. Misspelling of supersede.

supersede

• v. (transitive) Set (something) aside.
• v. (transitive) Take the place of.
• v. (transitive) Displace in favour of another.
• n. (Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.

supplant

• v. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.

uproot

• v. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.
• v. (by extension) To remove utterly; to eradicate.