different between displace vs disconcert

English

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/, /d?z?ple?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Verb

displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
4. To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

   Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) to repress
   • Megan Garber (2017) , “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic?^[1]: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

Derived terms

• displacement
• displacive
• displaceable

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French desconcerter, from des- (“dis-”) + concerter (“to bring into agreement, organize”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?sk?n?s??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?sk?n?s?t/

Verb

disconcert (third-person singular simple present disconcerts, present participle disconcerting, simple past and past participle disconcerted)

1. (transitive) To upset the composure of.
2. (transitive) To bring into confusion.
3. (transitive) To frustrate, discomfit.

   The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

Synonyms

• agitate
• upset
• See also Thesaurus:confuse

Derived terms

• disconcerting
• disconcertingly

Translations

Noun

disconcert

1. A state of disunion.