Synonyms for displace
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Supplant
supplant, remove, oust, depose, dislodge, dismiss, can, force out, relocate, supersede, banish, send away, throw, give notice, give the sack informal, terminate, fire, crowd out, give the axe informal, sack, discharge, cashier
2. Dislocate
move, dislocate, unsettle, disturb, disarrange, discompose, confuse
Definitions
- v. 1
To put out of place; to disarrange.
- v. 2
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
Related words
- Word family
- displacement
Forms
- Past participle
- displaced
e.g. displaced → supplanted, removed, ousted, deposed…
Example sentences
- remove Please remove that chair because it is in the way.
- oust They wanted to oust the communist government of Fidel Castro.
- depose Often the people do not wish to depose a tyrant, often they cannot not.
- supplant Will artificial intelligence supplant human intelligence?
- unsettle What Tom said cannot unsettle me.
- dislocate I don't know what to do if I dislocate a finger.
By length
- 3 letters
- can1
- 4 letters
- fire2, move1, sack1, oust1
- 5 letters
- throw1
- 6 letters
- remove2, banish2, depose2
- 7 letters
- dismiss2, confuse2, cashier2, disturb2, preempt2
- 8 letters
- relocate3, dislodge2, supplant2, unsettle3, misplace2, outplace, displant
- 9 letters
- discharge2, terminate3, supersede3, dislocate3
- 10 letters
- disarrange, discompose
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fire2 = 2 syllables).