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Definition of Supplant
1. Verb. Take the place or move into the position of. "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
Related verbs: Replace, Put Back, Replace
Specialized synonyms: Deputise, Deputize, Step In, Substitute, Displace, Preempt, Usurp, Oust
Generic synonyms: Come After, Follow, Succeed
Derivative terms: Replacement, Replacement, Replacement, Replacing, Supersedure, Supersession, Supplanter, Supplanting
Definition of Supplant
1. v. t. To trip up.
Definition of Supplant
1. Verb. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supplant
1. to take the place of [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplant
Literary usage of Supplant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"And so supplant us for ingratitude. ... frequently differ both from themselves
and from one another about them; bee-use that which can plant, can supplant, ..."
2. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"For Absalom tried to supplant his father by courting popularity, standing in the
gate, conversing with every suitor, lamenting the difficulty which he would ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"perhaps by the fear lest Bathsheba's child should supplant him in the succession,
... For Absalom tried to supplant his father by courting popularity, ..."
4. American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory by Jaques Cattell, Jaques Cattell Press (1921)
"... will in part supplant the descendants of native Americans. It is, however,
the case that immigrants are likely to become assimilated to native Americans ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"His way of combining the two principles is simply to supplant the one by the other.
... supplant ..."
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