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supplant
/ səˈplɑːnt; ˌsʌplɑːnˈteɪʃən /
verb
- tr to take the place of, often by trickery or force
he easily supplanted his rival
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Derived Forms
- supˈplanter, noun
- supplantation, noun
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Other Words From
- sup·plan·ta·tion [suhp-l, uh, n-, tey, -sh, uh, n], noun
- sup·plant·er noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of supplant1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
And, of course, it recommends keeping screen time limited, so as not to supplant other, real-world play and exploration.
Achmon is a harbinger of the business entrepreneurs who became the other new elite to supplant the old kibbutz hegemony.
The internet didn't just smash industries and supplant human jobs with our new server overlords.
State resources should maximize, and not supplant or suppress, their efforts.
Free votes can supplant villains with worse villains, corruption, and brutality with tyranny and enslavement of women.
Don't think for an instant that any ambition on my part, Georgie, makes me wish to see Lucius supplant your children.
The leaders mutually despise and detest one another, and universally endeavour to deceive and supplant each other.
Elder Brewster especially entreated for him, though this strange pulpit aspirant had hoped to supplant him.
She rapidly acquired sufficient influence to supplant her benefactress.
Of his own prowess, his power to supplant all rivals, he had no doubt.
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