English > displace: 4 senses > verb 4, motion| Meaning | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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| Synonym | move |
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| Cause to | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
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| Entailed by | bear | Move while holding up or supporting |
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| kick | Drive or propel with the foot |
| transfer | Cause to change ownership |
| Narrower | advance, bring forward | Cause to move forward |
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| agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up | change the arrangement or position of |
| beat, flap | Move with a thrashing motion |
| blow | Cause to move by means of an air current |
| brandish, flourish, wave | Move or swing back and forth |
| center, centre | Move into the center |
| change hands, change owners | Be transferred to another owner |
| chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off | Force to go away |
| circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute | Cause be distributed |
| circulate | Cause to move in a circuit or system |
| dandle | Move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees |
| disarrange | Destroy the arrangement / arrangement or order of |
| dislocate, luxate, splay, slip | Move out of position |
| displace | Cause to move, usually with force or pressure |
| drag | Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu |
| drive | Cause someone or something to move by driving |
| drop | Let fall to the ground |
| engage, mesh, lock, operate | Keep engaged |
| expel, throw out, kick out | Force to leave or move out |
| exteriorize, bring outside | bring outside the body for surgery, of organs |
| flick, ruffle, riffle | twitch / twitch or flutter |
| fluctuate | Cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern |
| funnel | Move or pour through a funnel |
| glide | Cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly |
| herd, crowd | Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together |
| hit, strike | Drive something violently into a location |
| hustle | Cause to move furtively and hurriedly |
| jar, shake up, bump around | Shock physically |
| lateralize | Move or displace to one side so as to make lateral |
| launch, set in motion | get going |
| lift | take hold of something and move it to a different location |
| lift, raise | Move upwards |
| lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down | Move something or somebody to a lower position |
| mobilize, mobilise | Cause to move around |
| overturn, tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over, tump over | Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position |
| play | Cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space |
| pour | Cause to run |
| press down, depress | press down |
| propel, impel | Cause to move forward with force |
| pull, draw | Cause to move by pulling |
| pull, draw | Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense |
| pulse | Drive by or as if by pulsation |
| pump | Move up and down |
| push, force | Move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" |
| put, set, place, pose, position, lay | Put into a certain place or abstract location |
| race, rush | Cause to move fast or to rush / rush or race |
| raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up | Raise from a lower to a higher position |
| rake | Move through with or as if with a rake |
| relocate | Move or establish in a new location |
| rock, sway | Cause to move back and forth |
| roll, revolve | Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis |
| rout out, drive out, force out, rouse | Force or drive out |
| run | Cause an animal to move fast |
| saltate | Move by saltation |
| scan | Move a light beam over |
| send, direct | Cause to go somewhere |
| separate, disunite, divide, part | Force, take, or pull apart |
| shift, dislodge, reposition | change place or direction |
| singsong | Move as if accompanied by a singsong |
| sink | Cause to sink |
| slide | Move smoothly along a surface |
| sling | Move with a sling |
| slip | Cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion |
| spill, shed, disgorge | Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run ... / run out or over |
| spill, slop, splatter | Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container |
| station, post, send, place | Assign to a station / station |
| stir | Move an implement through |
| swing | Move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting |
| take back | Move text to the previous line |
| transfer, shift | Move around |
| transfer | Move from one place to another |
| translate | change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation |
| translate | subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body |
| transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise | Send from one person or place to another |
| transport, carry | Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body |
| transport | Move something or somebody around |
| transport, send, ship | transport commercially |
| tug | Move by pulling hard |
| turn, turn over | Cause to move around a center so as to show another side of |
| turn | Cause to move around or rotate |
| turn | Cause to move along an axis or into a new direction |
| unseat | dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse |
| unwind, wind off, unroll | reverse the winding or twisting of |
| uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out | pull up by or as if by the roots |
| upstage | Move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience |
| wash | Move by or as if by water |
| wedge, squeeze, force | squeeze like a wedge into a tight space |
| whistle | Move, send, or bring as if by whistling |
| wind, wrap, roll, twine | Arrange or or coil around |
| woosh, whoosh | Move with a sibilant sound |
| work | Move into or onto |
| work | Move in an agitated manner |
| Similar to | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
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| Spanish | desplazar, mover, trasladar |
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| Catalan | desplaçar, moure |
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