supplant
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Verb (1)supplanted, supplanting
- take the place or move into the position of“Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left”“the computer has supplanted the slide rule”“Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school”Synonyms: replacesupersedesupervene uponMore general succeed, come afterMore specific usurp, substitute, preempt, oustSimilar replace
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant, noun
1. To trip up. obsolete “Supplanted, down he fell.” John Milton
2. To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.— Bp. John Fell
3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. obsolescent
You never will supplant the received ideas of God.— Walter S. Landor
4. To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else.
Synonyms: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors