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displacing

verb , present participle of displace

Synonyms and Antonyms of displacing

1 to change the place or position of

the slight tremor displaced the dishes on the shelves, but didn't do any real damage

Synonyms of displacing

budging, dislocating, disturbing, moving, relocating, removing, repositioning, shifting, transferring, transposing

Words Related to displacing

bearing, carrying, carting, conveying, driving, hauling, lugging, toting, transmitting, transplanting, transporting

replacing, superseding, supplanting

altering, making over, modifying, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revising, reworking, varying

Near Antonyms of displacing

anchoring, fixing, freezing, mooring, securing, setting, stabilizing

embedding (also imbedding), entrenching (also intrenching), implanting, ingraining (also engraining), lodging, rooting

2 to force to leave a country

World War II displaced people all over Europe

Synonyms of displacing

banishing, deporting, exiling, expatriating, relegating, transporting

Words Related to displacing

casting out, dismissing, ejecting, eliminating, evicting, excluding, expelling, expulsing, kicking out, ousting, running out, throwing out

excommunicating, ostracizing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning

dispossessing

Near Antonyms of displacing

naturalizing, repatriating

accepting, admitting, receiving, taking in

entertaining, harboring, housing, sheltering

3 to take the place of

inefficient methods displaced by newer ones

Synonyms of displacing

cutting out, displanting, relieving, replacing, substituting, superseding, supplanting

Words Related to displacing

preempting, usurping

4 to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)

the CEO was summarily displaced after the hostile takeover

Synonyms of displacing

defrocking, deposing, depriving, dethroning, ousting, uncrowning, unmaking, unseating, unthroning

Words Related to displacing

canning, cashiering, discharging, dismissing, firing, mustering out, removing, retiring, sacking

overthrowing, subverting, supplanting, toppling, usurping

banishing, booting (out), bouncing, casting out, chasing, drumming (out), ejecting, expelling, extruding, routing, running off, throwing out

Near Antonyms of displacing

baptizing (also baptising), inaugurating, inducting, initiating, installing, instating, investing

appointing, designating, electing

Antonyms of displacing

crowning, enthroning, throning

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