Usually means: Moves something from its place.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. displaces: Merriam-Webster
  2. displaces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. displaces: Vocabulary.com
  4. Displaces, displaces: Wordnik
  5. displaces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. displaces: Wiktionary
  7. displaces: Dictionary.com
  8. displaces: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. displaces: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. displaces: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. displaces: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See displace as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (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:  (psychology) To repress.
▸ Also see displace


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