supplant
verb
transitive verb
Synonyms
- cut out
- displace
- displant
- relieve
- replace
- substitute
- supersede
Example Sentences
Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022 Officials are working in a retroactive fashion to supplant the reality of the movement with the story Hong Kong officials seem to have willed themselves into believing. Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 Andrus, who is hitting .237 with eight home runs and 30 RBIs in 106 games, would supplant rookie Lenyn Sosa as Anderson’s replacement at shortstop. San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2022 During the pandemic lockdowns, players within these countries were using the game not as a form of leisure, but as a way to supplement or supplant their incomes. Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022 Nation/World Five years into Uber’s war to supplant the taxi industry, executives at the ride-hailing app were in danger of losing a crown jewel in their global conquest: Paris. Aaron C. Davis, Rick Noack And Douglas Macmillan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022 For the better part of a year, observers of Michigan football have wondered if or when former five-star recruit J.J. McCarthy will supplant Cade McNamara as the starting quarterback. Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2022 In the days before the fatal vote in the Senate that brought down his government, Mr. Draghi visited Algeria to announce a gas deal by which that country will supplant Russia as Italy’s biggest gas supplier. New York Times, 22 July 2022 Robots like Proteus might be necessary to supplant a looming worker shortage, making the workplace safer, and less strenuous in the process. Scott Nover, Quartz, 22 June 2022 See More Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French supplanter, from Latin supplantare to trip up, cause to stumble, from sub- + planta sole of the foot — more at place
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
supplant
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supplant
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- replace
- supersede
- substitute
- displace
- usurp
- relieve
- preempt
- displant
- cut out
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of supplant are displace, replace, and supersede. While all these words mean "to put out of a usual or proper place or into the place of another," supplant implies either a dispossessing or usurping of another's place, possessions, or privileges or an uprooting of something and its replacement with something else.
Although the words displace and supplant have much in common, displace implies an ousting or dislodging.
In some situations, the words replace and supplant are roughly equivalent. However, replace implies a filling of a place once occupied by something lost, destroyed, or no longer usable or adequate.
The words supersede and supplant are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, supersede implies replacing a person or thing that has become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior.