Definition of "displace"

displace

/dɪsˈpleɪs/

verb
third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced
1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  Quotations
  Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state
  2023 May 8, “Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state”, in BBC News‎
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.
  Quotations
  All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.
  1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 13
5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) To repress.
  Quotations
  Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.
  2017, Megan Garber, “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic‎