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Definition of displacing : of Displace

Synonyms:

disengaging, disjoining, disconnecting, deporting, dislodging, unseating, exiling

disorganizing, convulsing, discomposing, disarranging, tampering, muddling, scattering, deranging, jumbling, disturbing, meddling, swirling, whisking, tossing, ruffling, dislocating, mislaying, confusing, troubling, roiling, fermenting, roughening, churning, rummaging, mixing up, messing, disheveling, botching, capsizing, misplacing, confounding, agitating, tumbling, cluttering, upsetting, scrambling, rumpling, rippling, hashing, perturbing, whipping, disordering, tousling, blurring, mussing

imitating, commuting, subrogating, standing in, exchanging, changing, superseding, seconding, supplanting, swapping, switching, trading, filling in, representing, replacing, alternating, substituting

Usage examples:

• Before the end of the century, however, they had become municipal officers, gradually displacing the former consuls from the chief position. - "Dante: His Times and His Work", Arthur John Butler.
• On the other hand, Bartley Hodge was naturally careless, and he had a persistent way of displacing things that annoyed Frank, although the latter said little about it at first. - "Frank Merriwell's Chums", Burt L. Standish.
• A machine is invented which will enable one man to make as many boots as four men made formerly, displacing the labour of three men. - "Problems of Poverty", John A. Hobson.