different between displace vs unsettle

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

un- +? settle

Verb

unsettle (third-person singular simple present unsettles, present participle unsettling, simple past and past participle unsettled)

1. To make upset or uncomfortable

   Don't unsettle the horses or they'll bolt.
2. To bring into disorder or disarray

Antonyms

• settle

Translations

Anagrams

• lunettes, tunelets