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 …

The civil war left more than 250,000 people dead and another half million displaced. We aim to raise awareness about the millions of refugee and displaced children around the world.

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

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.

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.

Definition of displace verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to take the place of somebody/something synonym replace. be displaced (by somebody/something) Gradually …

To displace often means to shift something solid and comparatively immovable, more or less permanently from its place: The flood displaced houses from their foundations.