displace

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DISPLACE

to change the place or position of <the slight tremor displaced the dishes on the shelves, but didn't do any real damage>

Synonyms budge, dislocate, displace, disturb, relocate, remove, reposition, shift, transfer, transpose

Near Antonyms anchor, fix, freeze, moor, secure, set, stabilize; embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), implant, ingrain (also engrain), lodge, root

to force to leave a country <World War II displaced people all over Europe>

Synonyms deport, displace, exile, expatriate, relegate, transport

Near Antonyms naturalize, repatriate; accept, admit, receive, take in; entertain, harbor, house, shelter

to take the place of <inefficient methods displaced by newer ones>

Synonyms cut out, displace, displant, relieve, substitute, supersede, supplant

Related Words preempt, usurp

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) <the CEO was summarily displaced after the hostile takeover>

Synonyms defrock, deprive, dethrone, displace, oust, uncrown, unmake, unseat, unthrone

Related Words can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, remove, retire, sack; overthrow, subvert, supplant, topple, usurp; banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, rout, run off, throw out

Near Antonyms baptize, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, instate, invest; appoint, designate, elect

Antonyms crown, enthrone, throne

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