Unplace vs. Displace

Unplaceverb

(transitive) To remove from one's place; displace.

Displaceverb

To put out of place; to disarrange.

Unplacenoun

Lack or absence of place; placelessness; displacement.

Displaceverb

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

Displaceverb

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

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.’;

Displaceverb

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

Displaceverb

(psychology) to repress

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.

Displaceverb

To crowd out; to take the place of.

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

Displaceverb

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

Displaceverb

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

‘You have displaced the mirth.’;

Displaceverb

take the place of

Displaceverb

force to move;

‘the refugees were displaced by the war’;

Displaceverb

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

‘The war uprooted many people’;

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’;

Displaceverb

remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;

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

Displaceverb

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

‘The colonists displaced the natives’;