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say it: di-SPLAYS
displace is a verb meaning "cause to move, usually with force or pressure". It carries 4 recorded senses.
“live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour”
“discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor”
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
“The boss fired his secretary today”
“The company terminated 25% of its workers”
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
“Move those boxes into the corner, please”
“I'm moving my money to another bank”
“The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for displace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.