The meaning of DISPLACE is to remove from the usual or proper place; specifically : to expel or force to flee from home or homeland. How to use displace in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Displace.

DISPLACED definition: lacking a home, country, etc. See examples of displaced used in a sentence.

When you displace something, you move it to a new position — either in a concrete sense, like moving a chair, or in an abstract sense, like firing someone from a job.

DISPLACED definition: 1. having been forced to leave your home, for example by a war or dangerous event: 2. having been…. Learn more.

To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland or other place of residence: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.

to take the place of somebody/something synonym replace be displaced (by somebody/something) Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines.

About 325,000 people are displaced from their homes, with no prospect of returning in the foreseeable future.