displace
Force from position
To displace is to move something from its usual place or position: The earthquake displaced thousands of families.
Water displaced by an object rises equal to the object's volume—Archimedes' insight.
People displaced by war or disaster become refugees.
To displace can also mean to replace or supplant: Streaming has displaced physical media.
The noun is displacement.
Banishment from homeland
- banishOfficially send away
- oustRemove from position
- expelRemove forcibly from membership
- deportExpel from a country
evict · eject · remove · dislodge · uproot · unseat · dispossess · force out
Change location or act
- shiftMovement or work period
- dislodgeForce from position
- repositionMove to new location
- relocateEstablish residence elsewhere
transfer · rearrange · push · shove · budge · slide · nudge · knock
Replacement for another
- supplantReplace by force
- supersedeReplace something outdated
- succeedAchieve a desired aim
- take overAssume control of something
usurp · overthrow · swap · exchange · fill in · stand in · crowd out · edge out
Planned, effortful task
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- redirectSend in new direction
- transferMove between locations
- sublimateRedirect impulses constructively
defense mechanism · Freud · anxiety · emotion · aggression · frustration · unconscious · misdirect
exile
Banishment from homeland
deport · evict · eject · remove · dislodge · uproot · unseat · dispossess · force out · drive out
move
Change location or act
- shiftMovement or work period
- dislodgeForce from position
- repositionMove to new location
relocate · transfer · rearrange · push · shove · budge · slide · nudge · knock · jar
substitute
Replacement for another
take over · usurp · overthrow · swap · exchange · fill in · stand in · crowd out · edge out · push aside
project
Planned, effortful task
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- redirectSend in new direction
- transferMove between locations
sublimate · defense mechanism · Freud · anxiety · emotion · aggression · frustration · unconscious · misdirect · scapegoat
buoyancy
Fluid's upward resistance
- ArchimedesGreek polymath, physicist
- floatBuoyant object or vehicle
- submergePlunge beneath liquid
volume · tonnage · draft · hull · immerse · sink · rise · fluid · density · mass
- dislodgeremove, shift, budge, loosen, detach
- DIS- wordsdisagree, disallow, disbelieve, disapprove, disarray
- push asidesupplant, oust, edge out, push out, squeeze out
- buoyancybuoyancy, buoyant, float, floating, flotation
- science verbsabsorb, accelerate, attract, bounce, collide
- Deformersbend, twist, squash, stretch, lattice
- displaced personsPeople forced from home
- displaced peopleThose forced from homes
- water displacementVolume of liquid moved aside
- displaced families
- displaced workersThose who lost positions
- native displacementForcing indigenous people elsewhere
displaced, displacement, displacing, displaces, displacements, displacers, displaceable