单词 | supplant |
释义 | sup·plant 1. obsolete 2. archaic 3. < the pretty young wife finds herself … having been supplanted by a brisk, unlovely woman — Gerald Bullett > 4. a. (1) obsolete (2) < supplant hysteria with common sense — Bradford Smith > < the attempt of an alien administration to supplant the vernacular — R.M.Lovett > < attempts to supplant the representational theory by a position which it considers more adequate — Hunter Mead > b. < this cheap and useful material rapidly supplanted the expensive iron — Tom Marvel > < it supplements rather than supplants the private agencies — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: see replace |
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