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One who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
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supplanter
Word definitions for supplanter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supplanter \Sup*plan"ter\, n. One who supplants.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone or something that supplants.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another [syn: usurper ]
Usage examples of supplanter.
Mighty queer ways of spending wealth he mentioned, too, before Prout was up and, yelling at him for a thief and supplanter, drove at his throat with a knife.
Having supplanted their own Creators, the new beings were afraid of new supplanters.