displaces
Pushes from position
Displaces means takes the place of or forces something from its position.
Water displaces air when filling a container; a new technology displaces an older one.
People are displaced when forced from their homes by war or disaster.
The word often implies that what was there before has been pushed aside rather than simply replaced: The shopping center displaced a neighborhood.
Remove from property legally
- expelRemove forcibly from membership
- dislodgeForce from position
- oustRemove from position
- banishOfficially send away
deport · exile · uproot · dispossess · resettle · rehouse · refugee · emigration
Seize without right
- supersedeReplace something outdated
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- dethroneRemove from sovereignty
- unseatRemove from position
depose · topple · eclipse · preempt · override · substitute · succeed · surpass
evict
Remove from property legally
banish · deport · exile · uproot · dispossess · resettle · rehouse · refugee · emigration · immigration
usurp
Seize without right
- supersedeReplace something outdated
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- dethroneRemove from sovereignty
unseat · depose · topple · eclipse · preempt · override · substitute · succeed · surpass · outmode
push
Force something away
move · budge · reposition · transfer · remove · eject · force out · jostle · bump · propel
buoyancy
Fluid's upward resistance
- ArchimedesGreek polymath, physicist
- volumeAmount of space filled
- waterClear essential liquid
submerge · float · immerse · tonnage · draft · hull · ballast · sink · rise · mass
displacesreplaces
Takes the place of
repositions · returns · restores · puts back · reinserts
displacesreinstates
Returns to former position
restores · installs · establishes · appoints · enthrones
- 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
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