English-Portuguese translations for displace

• deslocar
  O Centro não pode ser fechado: isso seria inumano e limitar-se-ia a deslocar o problema. The Centre cannot be closed: that would be inhumane and just displace the problem.
  Não devemos deslocar a Europa demasiado para Norte, esquecendo em simultâneo o Sul. We must not displace Europe too much towards the north whilst forgetting the south.
  Teríamos assistido uma vez mais, como assistimos em 1991, ao uso de helicópteros de combate e outras aeronaves para matar, gasear e deslocar populações. We would have seen once again as we saw in 1991, the use of helicopter gunships and aircraft to murder, to gas and to displace.

Definition of displace

• To put out of place; to disarrange
• To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute
• To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced

Examples

• Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

Related words

• displacement
• displaced
• displacer
• displaced population
• displacement activity
• displaced person
• displacement current
• displacement per atom
• displacement impulse