displace
C1Academic AWL-8UK /dɪsˈpleɪs/US /dɪsˈpleɪs/
Meaning
verb
to take the place of somebody/something
“be displaced (by somebody/something), Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines.”
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“Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes or fled into exile because they had the temerity to speak against their governments.”
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