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[ suh-plant, -plahnt ] / səˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR supplant ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like. to replace (one thing) by something else. Origin of supplantFirst recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English supplanten, from Latin supplantāre “to trip up, overthrow”; see sup-, plant SYNONYMS FOR supplantSEE SYNONYMS FOR supplant ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for supplant1. See replace. OTHER WORDS FROM supplantsup·plan·ta·tion [suhp-luhn-tey-shuhn], /ˌsʌp lənˈteɪ ʃən/, nounsup·plant·er, nounun·sup·plant·ed, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH supplantsupplant , supplicant, suppliantWords nearby supplantsuppedaneum, supper, supper club, suppertime, Suppiluliumas I, supplant, supplanter, supple, supplejack, supplely, supplement Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for supplantAnd, of course, it recommends keeping screen time limited, so as not to supplant other, real-world play and exploration. Yes, Your Toddler Can Watch TV: The New Rules for Screen Time|Russell Saunders|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Achmon is a harbinger of the business entrepreneurs who became the other new elite to supplant the old kibbutz hegemony. Halevi's 'Like Dreamers' Is the Big Book On Israel We've Been Waiting For|Don Futterman|October 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST The internet didn't just smash industries and supplant human jobs with our new server overlords. Dave Eggers, Arcade Fire and Other Hipsters Shun the Internet|James Poulos|September 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST State resources should maximize, and not supplant or suppress, their efforts. What Haiti Can Teach Us About the Storm|Jonathan M. Katz|October 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Free votes can supplant villains with worse villains, corruption, and brutality with tyranny and enslavement of women. Leslie H. Gelb on Egypt, Syria: Take a Deep Breath, America|Leslie H. Gelb|June 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST He outwardly supported Azal for many years, while secretly planning to supplant him. Bahaism and Its Claims|Samuel Graham Wilson Had Winona, whom she had introduced to Mr. Peavey, been trying to supplant her? The Salamander|Owen Johnson She is willing to morally damn herself for purposes of monarchical intrigue, in order to supplant us. The Right of American Slavery|True Worthy Hoit In others appears the imitation of Italian models which was to supplant the ancient fashion. Modern Spanish Lyrics|Various Let us recognize these facts as facts, and labor honestly to supplant them with more wholesome, more cheering realities. Black and White|Timothy Thomas Fortune
British Dictionary definitions for supplant
verb(tr) to take the place of, often by trickery or forcehe easily supplanted his rival Derived forms of supplantsupplantation (ˌsʌplɑːnˈteɪʃən), nounsupplanter, nounWord Origin for supplantC13: via Old French from Latin supplantāre to trip up, from sub- from below + planta sole of the foot 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 Words related to supplantsupersede, succeed, usurp, overthrow, unseat, undermine, oust, force, crowd, eject, expel, transfer, remove, bounce, ring, substitute, back up, cut out, fill in, cast out |