A way to think of it: something is pushed out of the spot where it belongs. Dis- + place — take it off its place.
From the word’s history
From Middle French desplacer: des- 'away' + place 'place' — literally to put out of place.
來自中古法語 desplacer：des-（離開、去除）＋ place（位置），字面就是「使離開原位」。今天所有用法都還踩在這個字面意思上，只是被擠走的東西從一塊石頭換成一群人、或一種舊技術。
Middle French desplacer (French déplacer), as given in the entry's origin note
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
displaceverb/dɪsˈpleɪs/
- 1
To put out of place; to disarrange.
- 2
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state
- 3
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- 4
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.
- All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.
- 5
To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- 6
human-sciencespsychologysciencesTo repress.
- Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.
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