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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But it was clear at the time it was adopted that it did not empower “the justices of the court to supplement or supplant the Governor’s executive clemency authority.”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Lih, who invented the device, said his company isn’t trying to supplant the Heimlich or back blows and instead promotes it for use only when those established methods fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
The recently snared behemoth supplants the previous record of 18 feet, 9 inches, which was set in 2020 by professional trappers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
A stone tablet now supplants the old wooden cross raised by the first settlers to mark the spot where the adventurers landed on American soil.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
By contesting the decision, you might have supplanted positive memories with ill will and friction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 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
Those nominations numbers continued the shift that has been taking place the last several years as Cannes has supplanted the fall film festivals as the event with the most sway at the Academy Awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The rise of AI has initiated the latest round of anxiety that workers might be supplanted by machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
A ringing supplanted the silence in his head.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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 “the role of the Big Three carriers.”
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
Compton was seized with a vision of Lawrence supplanting his own authority by the sheer exercise of will, abetted by geography.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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