drive away vs displace

drive away and displace both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drive away	No	No	Yes	No
displace	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, displace is a hypernym of drive away; that is, displace is a word with a broader meaning than drive away:

drive away: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
displace: cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

Other hypernyms of drive away include move.

drive away (verb)	displace (verb)
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings	cause to move, usually with force or pressure
	cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
	take the place of or have precedence over
	terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position