DIS-PLACES Synonyms: 128 Similar and Opposite Words

displaces

verb

present tense third-person singular of displace

as in removes

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

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Relevance

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as in relegates

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

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as in replaces

to take the place of inefficient methods displaced by newer ones

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as in deposes

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

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Recent Examples of displaces But shouldn’t caring about workers also mean limits on what AI companies can do that displaces people from jobs? —

Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026 The aircraft carrier, which measures about 1,106 feet in length and displaces over 100,000 tons, is now fully mission capable. —

Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026 The union is also requesting a regional moratorium on short-term rentals by Airbnb, now also a FIFA sponsor, which the union argues displaces local workers in an already thin Los Angeles housing market. —

Adam Crafton, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Autumn olive outcompetes and displaces native plants by shading them and changing the surrounding soil chemistry—a process called allelopathy. —

Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 5 Apr. 2026 If technology displaces workers, then the value of their human capital can be wiped out entirely. —

Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026 When attention is this constrained, dedicating visual bandwidth to representational cues necessarily displaces something else. —

Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026 The federal determination highlights how permitting males to compete on female teams displaces female athletes from podiums, denies them advancement opportunities, and diminishes their visibility and recognition in competitions. —

Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026 This one starts with that shelter imploding under the strength of a massive radiation storm that displaces the Garrity clan in a hurry, and leaves them on a lifeboat to Europe in the wretched hope that someone on the continent will offer them a safe place to plant new roots. —

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2026

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The order does not legalize marijuana for recreational or medical use under federal law, but removes it from the classification of drugs like heroin, MDMA and LSD.

— Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
There’s a tool that eliminates the need to bend or kneel to pull up weeds, and effectively removes the entire sprout according to shoppers, preventing the same plant from popping back up all summer.

— Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026