Meaning

• To put out of place; to disarrange.

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

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

• 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."

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

• To repress