supplanted

American  

[suh-plan-tid] / səˈplæn tɪd /

adjective

1. having been replaced or taken over by someone or something else.

   A few months later, in the midnight secrecy of a remote castle, the supplanted monarch met his untimely end.

   Having the latest gear is very, very cool, but buying the recently supplanted versions can save you a considerable amount of money.

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noun

1. Usually the supplanted people or things that have been replaced.

   He took up with the peasantry's rebellion only to find that the supplanters were just as bad as the supplanted.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of supplant.

Other Word Forms

• unsupplanted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of supplanted

supplant ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Supplanted at fullback by Darrel Young, Mike Sellers’s status was tenuous throughout the preseason.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2011

Supplanted, I stepped aside; and felt manhood retreat before me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Supplanted in her husband's love; denied long the natural heritage of woman; paying the supreme price at last, only to be left here by the wayside alone, outside the family tomb.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Is it not hell to know his face no more, Supplanted, spurned and thrust without his door.

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon

Supplanted by this niche of stone, So formal and so new; And worse, still worse, the elder bush, Where sang the linnet and the thrush— Say, has that vanished too?

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

Related Words

• overthrow
• succeed
• supersede
• undermine
• unseat
• usurp