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supplant

[ suh-plant, -plahnt ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. to replace (one thing) by something else.


supplant

/ ˌsʌplɑːnˈteɪʃən; səˈplɑːnt /

verb

  1. tr to take the place of, often by trickery or force

    he easily supplanted his rival

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • supplantation, noun
  • ܱˈԳٱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ܱ··ٲ·پDz [suhp-l, uh, n-, tey, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • ܱ·Գ· noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of supplant1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English supplanten, from Latin ܱԳ “to trip up, overthrow”; sup-, plant
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Word History and Origins

Origin of supplant1

C13: via Old French from Latin ܱԳ to trip up, from sub- from below + planta sole of the foot
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Synonym Study

See replace.
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Example Sentences

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Yousef masterfully carries us along from the women’s happier memories of Kinkade as a devoted family man to someone whose work and fame began to supplant the needs of his wife and kids.

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Now, the area is instead home to the amenities that supplanted Chicago’s first socially complex, intentionally provocative, and culturally essential queer-accomodating neighborhood.

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So maybe there is hope for the AL West, which supplanted the Central as the worst division in baseball.

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He’s uninterested in the book’s driving point: Paul’s struggle to make sense of a world where petty rules have supplanted community and common sense.

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The photo-op had supplanted policy as the sine qua non of political discourse.

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