displacing

Taking another's place

Displacing is taking the place of something or moving it from its usual position.

Water displaces air when filling a container; a new technology displaces an old one.

People are displaced by war or disaster, forced from their homes.

The rising floodwaters were displacing thousands of residents.

In psychology, displacing refers to redirecting emotions toward a safer target: He was displacing his anger at his boss onto his family.

dislodge

eject

Throw out forcibly

  • expelRemove forcibly from membership
  • oustRemove from position
  • removeTake something away

uproot · evict · detach · unseat · dislodge · disentangle · dislocate · unfix · unhinge · extricate

relocate

uproot

Remove from the ground

deport · expatriate · evict · dispossess · expropriate · remove · transfer · transplant · repatriate · evacuate

usurp

supplant

Replace by force

dethrone · depose · oust · unseat · succeed · usurp · take over · push out · edge out · crowd out

fluid

buoyancy

Fluid's upward resistance

volume · Archimedes · water · liquid · tonnage · draft · hull · sink · rise · pressure

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Opposites
position/location stability

displacingfixing

Restoring proper function

anchoring · securing · remaining · staying · settling

status/role occupancy

displacingreinstating

Returning to previous position

restoring · installing · reestablishing · retaining · enthroning

settlement/rootedness

displacingsettling

Reaching resolution or rest

settling in · establishing · rooting · planting · grounding

Family

place, replace, placid, replaced, replacement, placing, misplaced, displace, replacing

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