The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To trip up. [Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.''
--Milton.-
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. -
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: supplant)
Usage examples of "supplanted".
As the cold came on, and as each more southern zone became fitted for arctic beings and ill-fitted for their former more temperate inhabitants, the latter would be supplanted and arctic productions would take their places.
The fleeting maternal concern was quickly supplanted by professional curiosity as the Rowan scanned Damia's recent experience beyond Aurigae.
In this case, intermediate varieties between the several representative species and their common parent, must formerly have existed in each broken portion of the land, but these links will have been supplanted and exterminated during the process of natural selection, so that they will no longer exist in a living state.
On the other hand, all the chief laws of palaeontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation: old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.
With respect to existing forms, we should remember that we have no right to expect (excepting in rare cases) to discover directly connecting links between them, but only between each and some extinct and supplanted form.
I have also shown that the intermediate varieties which will at first probably exist in the intermediate zones, will be liable to be supplanted by the allied forms on either hand.
The fleeting maternal concern was quickly supplanted by professional curiosity as the Rowan scanned Jeff's recent experience beyond Auriga.
Had his job, his dedication to the presentation of his skimmers, supplanted interest in people?
Would it improve matters to have T'bor supplanted by one of the other bronze riders here?
Remember that although Kronos foresaw the danger of being supplanted, and though he destroyed his children to prevent it—he was supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for Zeus was the better ruler.
Would he be kept in his position, or would he be supplanted by a younger man?
The look of pain was gone, and as sometimes happens in death, it had been supplanted by a calm which looked like youth -- the best of youth.
And to have watched the paling of a Chekovian colonial social order, as new values and new heroes supplanted old manners and outworn ideals of heroism.
His sadness for what had been, and what might have been, was slowly being supplanted by his excitement at being close to the edge again.
The yeasty scents of the kitchen were soon supplanted by the sharp, heady reek of horses, hay and manure.