displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
(verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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(verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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(verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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(verb) post in a public place | - |
placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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(verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
(verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
(verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
(verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
(verb) to arrange for | - |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
(verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
(verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
(verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
(verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
(verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
replace | (verb) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) | - |
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(verb) put something back where it belongs | Synonyms: put back |
(verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute |
(verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, supplant |