supplanter

[ suh-plan-ter, -plahn‐ ]

/ səˈplæn tər, -ˈplɑn‐ /

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noun

someone or something taking the place of another, as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like: The railways were extolled in art and literature on a scale of imagination and power which the steam train's unromantic supplanter, the automobile, wholly failed to inspire.

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Origin of supplanter

First recorded in 1350–1400; supplant + -er¹

Words nearby supplanter

supper club, suppertime, Suppiluliumas I, supplant, supplanted, supplanter, supple, supplejack, supplely, supplement, supplemental

How to use supplanter in a sentence

She remembered Audouin, that supplanter Audouin; but she had clean forgotten poor solitary yearning Hiram!
Babylon, Volume 2 (of 3)|Grant Allen
For the great supplanter of the power of the Church was, as already hinted, the power of the City Companies.
Highways and Byways in London|Mrs. E. T. Cook.
So the household came to look upon him in the light of a worthy supplanter of the Indian dogs as a protector for her.
The Biography of a Prairie Girl|Eleanor Gates
Above all, was Dame Bevan to see that home of her heart's hope, the permanent home of the harsh supplanter of her husband?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845|Various

Poor Bevan had been taken by surprise in this sudden execution, put in by his treacherous supplanter, Lewis Lewis.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845|Various

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