displace

  • (verb): To put out of place; to disarrange.
  • (verb): To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • (verb): To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (verb): To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
  • (verb): (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • (verb): To repress
  • Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.