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supplant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb supplant has 1 sense
- supplant(v = verb.social) replace, supercede, supersede, supervene upon - take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" is one way to come after, follow, succeed
Derived forms noun supplanter1, noun supplanting1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
supplant, v. t. [F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant, n. ].
- To trip up. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. [1913 Webster]"Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend." [1913 Webster]
- To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. [1913 Webster]"You never will supplant the received ideas of God." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
supplant, v.tr. dispossess and take the place of, esp. by underhand means.
Derivative
supplanter n.
Etymology
ME f. OF supplanter or L supplantare trip up (as SUB-, planta sole)
THESAURUS
supplant
act for, bounce, cast out, change places with, crowd out, cut out, dismiss, displace, double for, eject, exchange, expel, fill in for, force out, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch-hit, relieve, remove, replace, represent, spell, spell off, stand in for, step, subrogate, substitute, substitute for, succeed, supersede, swap places with, turn out, understudy for, unseat, usurpROGET THESAURUS
supplant
Substitution
VB substitute, put in the place of, change for, make way for, give place to, supply the place of, take the place of, supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute, step into stand in the shoes of, jury rig, make a shift with, put up with, borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize, commute, redeem, compound for.
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