displace

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: millions of refugees who were displaced by the war.
2. v. To take the place of; supplant.
3. v. To discharge from an office or position.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To remove to a different place; put out of the usual or proper place: as, to displace books or papers.
2. To remove from any position, office, or dignity; depose: as, to displace an officer of government.
3. To disorder; disturb; spoil.
4. To take the place of; replace.
5. Synonyms To dislodge, oust, dismiss, discharge.

Wiktionary

1. v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
2. v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
3. v. of a floating ship To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation.
2. v. To crowd out; to take the place of.
3. v. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose.
4. v. obsolete To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
2. v. cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
3. v. cause to move, usually with force or pressure
4. v. take the place of or have precedence over