Crossword clues for supplanting
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. (present participle of supplant English)
WordNet
n. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: displacement]
Usage examples of "supplanting".
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.