supplant
- to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- to replace (one thing) by something else.
Origin of supplant
Synonyms for supplant
Related Words for supplanting
supersede, succeed, usurp, overthrow, unseat, undermine, oust, force, crowd, eject, expel, transfer, remove, bounce, ring, substitute, outplaceExamples from the Web for supplanting
Contemporary Examples of supplanting
If selected, he would have to give up his seat in the House and any hope of supplanting John Boehner as speaker.
While earning millions, reality-TV stars are supplanting the role of movie stars in some ways.
Web sites are supplanting mosques, madrassas and cafes as the incubators of Islamist radicalism.
Not that Dodd, his closest friend in the Senate, is supplanting Kennedy.
Historical Examples of supplanting
If you can help him to the seniorship instead of supplanting him, be a brave boy, and do it.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
It is the modern, not supplanting or effacing, but standing by the old.
Royal EdinburghMargaret Oliphant
He came with the renewed hope of supplanting Washington uppermost in his breast.
The American RevolutionJohn Fiske
This was a new era in the history of the supplanting, planning Jacob.
Notes on the Book of GenesisCharles Henry Mackintosh
Or is he so sure of his standing that he fears no supplanting?
Helmet of NavarreBertha Runkle
supplant
- (tr) to take the place of, often by trickery or forcehe easily supplanted his rival
Word Origin for supplant
Word Origin and History for supplanting
supplant
c.1300, "to trip up, overthrow, defeat, dispossess," from Old French supplanter "to trip up, overthrow," from Latin supplantare "trip up, overthrow," from sub "under" + planta "sole of the foot" (see plant (n.)). Meaning "replace one thing with another" first recorded 1670s. Interesting sense evolution parallel in Hebrew akabh "he beguiled," from akebh "heel."