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Meaning of 'supplant' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Supplant [ n.]
- To trip up.
- To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
- To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

Meaning of 'supplant' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . supplant [ v]
Meaning (1):
- take the place or move into the position of
Example in sentence:
  • Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school;
  • Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left;
  • the computer has supplanted the slide rule

Nearby Words:

sup supawn supe super super- superable superabound superabundance superabundant superacidulated

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