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. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak.
Syn.
— To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.
DISPLACEABLE
Dis*place"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being displaced.
DISPLACEMENT
Dis*place"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. déplacement.]
1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting
out of place.
Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton.
The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.
2. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.