displace

  1. Verb.  to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  2. Verb.  to supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  3. Verb.  (context, of a floating ship) to have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

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