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• past participle of supplant.
• past tense form of supplant.

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

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Etymology

Origin of supplanted

supplant ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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supplanted

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

The survey shows that fears about surging borrowing costs have even supplanted worries about the AI trade possibly turning into a bubble.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

José Arcadio Segundo, who took a long time to discover that he had been supplanted, was unable to understand his brother's passion.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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