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Synonyms for displace
Synonyms for displace: oust and preempt. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for displace
Interchangeable with displace in this sense
Audited under displace's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one displace carries in that sense.
- oustverb, in the sense "to force out of a usual place or position, or take the place of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name displace as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- preemptpreempt is a verb in the sense "take the place of or have precedence over"
The first group is filed under displace's own sense. The second reaches displace from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
to force out of a usual place or position, or take the place of
Automation has begun to displace workers in the shipping industry.
The true synonym
oust
Same sentence, swapped: Automation has begun to oust workers in the shipping industry.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for displace in the sentence quoted.
- retrain
- unionize
- subsidize
Where displace turns up in the game
displace is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play displace
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so displace reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. displace carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.