Definitions of displace:

• verb:   move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
• verb:   force to move

  Example: "The refugees were displaced by the war"

• verb:   take the place of
• verb:   put out of its usual place, position, or relationship

  Example: "The colonists displaced the natives"

• verb:   remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
• verb:   cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense