transitive verb displaced -·placed′, displacing -·plac′·ing

1. to move from its usual or proper place
2. to remove from office; discharge
3. to take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause of or occasion for removing, pushing aside, etc.) a ship displaces a certain amount of water, factory workers that have been displaced by machines

Etymology: OFr desplacer: see dis- & place