Displace vs. Replace

Displaceverb

To put out of place; to disarrange.

Replaceverb

(transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back

‘When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.’;

Displaceverb

To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

Replaceverb

(transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore

‘You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.’;

Displaceverb

To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

Replaceverb

(transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

‘I replaced my car with a newer model.’; ‘The batteries were dead so I replaced them’;

Displaceverb

To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

‘Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.’;

Replaceverb

(transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.

‘This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.’;

Displaceverb

(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

Replaceverb

(transitive) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.

Displaceverb

(psychology) to repress

Replaceverb

To place again.

Displaceverb

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.

Replaceverb

To put in a new or different place.

Displaceverb

To crowd out; to take the place of.

‘Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas.’;

Replaceverb

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

‘The earl . . . was replaced in his government.’;

Displaceverb

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

Replaceverb

To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

Displaceverb

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

‘You have displaced the mirth.’;

Replaceverb

To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.

‘With Israel, religion replaced morality.’;

Displaceverb

take the place of

Replaceverb

To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

‘This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration.’;

Displaceverb

force to move;

‘the refugees were displaced by the war’;

Replaceverb

To put in a new or different place.

Displaceverb

move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;

‘The war uprooted many people’;

Replaceverb

substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected);

‘He replaced the old razor blade’; ‘We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago’; ‘the insurance will replace the lost income’; ‘This antique vase can never be replaced’;

Displaceverb

cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense;

‘Move those boxes into the corner, please’; ‘I'm moving my money to another bank’; ‘The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant’;

Replaceverb

take the place or move into the position of;

‘Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left’; ‘the computer has supplanted the slide rule’; ‘Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school’;

Displaceverb

remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;

‘The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space’;

Replaceverb

put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items;

‘the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt’; ‘substitute regular milk with fat-free milk’;

Displaceverb

put out of its usual place, position, or relationship;

‘The colonists displaced the natives’;

Replaceverb

put something back where it belongs;

‘replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it’; ‘please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them’;

Replaceverb

take the place of

‘Ian's smile was replaced by a frown’;

Replaceverb

provide a substitute for (something that is broken, old, or inoperative)

‘the glass had not long been replaced after a fight’;

Replaceverb

fill the role of (someone or something) with a substitute

‘the government dismissed 3,000 of its customs inspectors, replacing them with new recruits’;

Replaceverb

put (something) back in a previous place or position

‘he drained his glass and replaced it on the bar’;