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What does displace mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word displace? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  2. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  3. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  4. (psychology) to repress
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He had been here since long before I was born, and it would be too difficult to displace him and put someone else into his position.
The politicians, both those who hold office and others who aspire to displace them, are yet to show such mettle.
It was unsettling that a newbie to the school could displace him so easily.
Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed.
A thin oxide spacer is used to displace P-type dopant implantation to P-type shallow source and drain extension junctions.
These image structures imbricate prior historical formations to displace the digital warfare irradiating the cybermilitarized economy.

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