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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Verb

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