Word Meanings - DISPLACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced. 2. To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal

Additional info about word: DISPLACE

1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced. 2. To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times. 3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. 4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. You have displaced the mirth. Shak. Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPLACE)

• Mortify
• Deaden
• subdue
• master
• vex
• disappoint
• annoy
• rot
• fester
• humble
• abash
• chagrin
• displace
• putrefy
• Remove
• Displace
• separate
• abstract
• transport
• carry
• transfer
• eject
• oust
• dislodge
• suppress
• migrate
• depart
• Shift Change
• alter
• shelve
• remove
• Supersede
• obviate
• recal
• neutralize
• overrule
• suspend
• supplant
• Transpose
• Change
• transmute
• interchange
• reverse
• shift

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISPLACE)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant

Related words: (words related to DISPLACE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPOSE
  To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed. (more info) 1. To change the place or order of; to substitute one
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.