The Collaborative International Dictionary
Displace \Dis*place"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Displacing.] [Pref. dis- + place: cf. F. d['e]placer.]
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.
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To crowd out; to take the place of.
Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas.
--London Times. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
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To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.]
You have displaced the mirth.
--Shak.Syn: To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of displace English)
Usage examples of "displacing".
In carefully choreographed sequence, displacing great tides of brine, the metal ring more than a quarter of a mile across, studded with cruel hooks and collars, began to descend.
He feels it creeping nearer, displacing great gouts of cold water and sending them rolling up and out of the abyss in uncanny tides.
Lunzie studied every muscle which worked to draw in breath and release it, felt the relief of each part of her body as fresh oxygen reached it, displacing tired, used carbon dioxide.
Then pushed herself around the table, which also momentarily displacing Kamiton from his position.
It attempted Displacing a drone but the wormhole collapsed before it was properly formed.
It considered Displacing chemicals or biotechs which would force Dajeil's body to have the child.
It considered just Displacing her into Genar-Hofoen's proximity, or he into hers.
In Fíriel's Song we also see an ending for "is", -ië, appended to adjectives and displacing their final vowel: hence in this song we have márië for "(it) is good", derived from the adjective mára "good".
Notice that the genitive ending -o, which we underlined, is added to the adjective voronda (regularly displacing a final -a) rather than to the noun Elendil.
However, it turns out that most ordinals end in -ëa, displacing the final vowel of the corresponding cardinal number.
Mallë tano "of that road", genitive of mallë tana "that road" the genitive ending -o displacing a final -a as usual.
The competition for procreation occurs mostly in the testicles, which grow large and produce enormous quantities of sperm, so as to displace the sperm of rivals, rather than displacing the rivals themselves.
They spread everywhere, displacing the primitives, and everything was wonderful.
For the first time they were displacing those whose capacities were not even close to their own.
The Illyrians, who lived in the Balkans (present-day Yugoslavia—another chronic hot spot), advanced south into the Peloponnesian peninsula, displacing the Dorians of northern Greece, and the Dorians moved south to displace other Greeks, many of whom had to take to their ships to escape.