supplant
Americanverb
Synonym Usage
See replace.
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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supplantsimple
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supplantssimple
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have supplantedperfect
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has supplantedperfect
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am supplantingprogressive
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are supplantingprogressive
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is supplantingprogressive
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have been supplantingperfect progressive
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has been supplantingperfect progressive
Past
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supplantedsimple
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had supplantedperfect
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was supplantingprogressive
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were supplantingprogressive
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had been supplantingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of supplant
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English supplanten, from Latin supplantāre “to trip up, overthrow”; see sup-, plant
Explanation
Kate was out sick for a whole month, and when she came back to school, Jessie had supplanted her as the funny girl at the lunch table. Supplant means "to take the place of." Being supplanted is something that often happens to ideas or ways of thinking. Encouraging children's freedom has supplanted old ideas about children being better seen than heard. After a shocking upset at Wimbledon, a new tennis player has supplanted the reigning champion.
Vocabulary lists containing supplant
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The updated production by director Emma Griffin leaned into the story’s “Succession” undercurrents, with the not-quite-toothless old lion lashing out at those he sees as eager to supplant him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
After all, I’d never lay myself off, push any convoluted apps down my own throat, replace me with AI or let students use chatbots to supplant themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
While artificial intelligence can help advisers operate more efficiently, there’s little indication that it can supplant experienced financial planners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
City leaders hope F&M Bank Amphitheater of Long Beach, located next to the famed Queen Mary, will supplant declining revenues from oil extraction and lead to an uptick in tourism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
But those earnings could become more volatile if artificial intelligence supplants the sort of back-office systems that TCS provides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
This is a crucial piece to the puzzle, because production of one gigabyte of HBM supplants three gigabytes of other types of memory, worsening shortages down the line.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
In other cases, the court simply supplants its own intuition or understanding of the facts for that of the trial court, a fundamental violation of the deference normally afforded trial court findings of fact.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2024
Their carbon footprint will further drop as renewable energy supplants electricity generated from fossil fuels in the years to come, she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
The spirit of the nineteenth century supplants the spirit of the preceding centuries.
From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart
He has this terrible feeling of helplessness that is eventually supplanted by this terrible feeling of power that he’s unable to manage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
By contesting the decision, you might have supplanted positive memories with ill will and friction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The musicians who supplanted the East Village folkies were by that time dinosaurs themselves, having been rendered extinct by pop permutations several times over.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Framed this way, mathematicians are not in a race against A.I.s, waiting for the dreaded Kasparov moment when we become supplanted.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Once theirs had been a powerful guild, but in recent centuries the maesters of the Citadel had supplanted the alchemists almost everywhere.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
At a time when servers are being shut down, physical media is being digitized out of existence, and the subscription model is supplanting personal ownership, Ruth believes this is a way to have data autonomy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
However the multinational bank also believes that a potential offering from Charter and SpaceX would fall short of supplanting any of the major cellular service providers in the U.S.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
She wrote that considering legislative history “prevents the preferences of judges from supplanting the will of the people.”
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then there’s the threat of smart machines supplanting smart humans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Her son’s resistance to schoolwork was a mild disorder that many children go through, but his study of chess, an intellectual activity, was supplanting it.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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