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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
supplant
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Adams, an excellent new pitcher, may supplant Hayes as starting pitcher by the end of the year.
▪ General Salan was supplanted soon after the invasion by General Henri Navarre.
▪ Some would argue that New York has supplanted Paris as the center of new culture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brown instead hurt his heel in training camp, failed to supplant Albert Lewis and hobbled through an ineffective half-season.
▪ But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance.
▪ He might supplant Jones before the year is out.
▪ Simulation has also begun to supplant individual creativity.
▪ Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.
▪ The arrival of man-made instruments represented the supplanting and indeed deliberate transcending of nature by human values.
▪ The usual summer crush of final exams was supplanted by the trappings of grief.
▪ Universities themselves have supplanted the intellectual leadership of the church which helped to create many of them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supplant

Supplant \Sup*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supplanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Supplanting.] [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, n.]

  1. To trip up. [Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.''
    --Milton.

  2. 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.

    Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.
    --Bp. Fell.

  3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

    You never will supplant the received ideas of God.
    --Landor.

    Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
supplant

early 14c., "to trip up, overthrow, defeat, dispossess," from Old French suplanter, sosplanter "to trip up, overthrow, drive out, usurp," or directly from Latin supplantare "trip up, overthrow," from sub "under" (see sub-) + planta "sole of the foot" (see plant (n.)). Meaning "replace one thing with another" first recorded 1670s. There is a sense evolution parallel in Hebrew akabh "he beguiled," from akebh "heel."

Wiktionary
supplant

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To uproot, to remove violently.

WordNet
supplant

v. 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" [syn: replace, supersede, supervene upon]

Usage examples of "supplant".

Hence, the more common forms, in the race for life, will tend to beat and supplant the less common forms, for these will be more slowly modified and improved.

Nor did Brother Simeon help matters any with his remarks to the former porteress about the injustice she had suffered and with his praising of her superior abilities over those of the woman who had supplanted her at Tyndal.

When we bear in mind the tendency of any language, if it once attains a certain predominance, to supplant all others, and when we look at the map of the world and see the extent now in the hands of the two English-speaking nations, I think it may be prophesied that the language in which this book is written will one day be almost as familiar to the greater number of Ticinesi as their own.

At Indiana University I had taken a course in Public Speaking with the ultimate object of supplanting Senator Beveridge and William J.

Into the social structure of the Western Civilization there will be infused the principle of authority, supplanting the principle of wealth.

Whilst sowing discord among the nobles, he flattered the commons to the intent that, having got rid of the former, he might with the aid of the latter achieve his scarcely veiled design of supplanting the king himself.

Having no great issues with which to identify themselves, and upon which they could openly and honorably contend for the approval of the nation, their only means for securing their respective private ends lay in secretly overreaching and supplanting each other.

The discharging of the old chef, even though he was supplanted by an oilier and subtler conspirator, had slightly disquieted the staff, and Myron was able to have the lobby and corridors more nearly cleaned, the tennis courts weeded--on behalf of the two young men who, out of some hundred and fifty drunks, occasionally played tennis--and unscorched chicken added to the menu.

But he had tried to supplant the Achaemenids, and Amestris was in a towering rage.

Even the ox and the Norman horse, so long in use there, have been largely supplanted by that mysterious force, electricity, which Franklin was discovering on the other side of the Alleghany Mountains at the very time that this suggestion was being made to the minister of Louis XV.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, behaviorism was supplanted by neuroscientific methods of investigating the mind.

It has been supplanted by the dictatorship of the Central Committee of the Bolshevist Party, governing with the assistance of a swarm of extraordinary commissions and punitive detachments of imported soldiers.

Some of its young would probably inherit the same habits or structure, and by the repetition of this process, a new variety might be formed which would either supplant or coexist with the parent-form of wolf.

A realization of his predicament at last supplanted the geologic reveries that had ifiled his mind.

I can tell you this: she intends immediately to supplant Giles as patron of Chatterford.