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supplant Definition

sup·plant (sə plant′, -plänt′)

transitive verb

  1. to take the place of; supersede, esp. through force or plotting
  2. to remove or uproot in order to replace with something else

Etymology: ME supplanten < OFr supplanter < L supplantare, to put under the sole of the foot, trip up < sub-, under (see sub-) + planta, sole of the foot: see plant

supplant Related Forms
sup′·plan·ta′·tion (sup′lan tā′s̸hən) noun sup·plant′er noun
supplant Synonyms

supplant

v.

displace, supersede, usurp; see remove 1, replace 2. See syn. study at replace.

supplant Usage Examples

Object

  • state: Hon. Members would do well to recognize that the European Union collective exists to supplant the nation state.
  • need: Hence the RCM does not supplant the need for improved global models.
  • system: However, true progress in understanding the solar system and the planets only came when heliocentric ideas began to supplant the old geocentric system.
  • one: The duplicates sale of 1813 financed the compilation of a new catalog, supplanting the existing one in three sequences.
  • form: By 2004 it had supplanted the other forms of Transfer.
  • language: The experts generally agree that hearing aids cannot completely supplant sign languages.

Subject

  • vision: In the subsequent passage, the immediacy of the visions is supplanted by the vision of a future day.
  • something: It happened at a time when the Conservative Party needed careerist pragmatism to be supplanted by something else.
  • hypertext: Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is now being largely supplanted by hypertext.
  • system: In richer countries, such systems are increasingly seen as providing insufficient incentive to work and are being supplanted by transfer payment systems.

Preposition: by

  • vision: In the subsequent passage, the immediacy of the visions is supplanted by the vision of a future day.
  • something: It happened at a time when the Conservative Party needed careerist pragmatism to be supplanted by something else.
  • work: In the 1980s the bookshop theory was finally supplanted by the work of Shonk ( 1981, 1983, 1985 ).
  • hypertext: Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is now being largely supplanted by hypertext.

Modifying Another Word

  • largely: With the advance of the royalty system such deals have been largely supplanted.
  • gradually: Design Style The Gothic style predominated to about the 1530's to be gradually supplanted by the Renaissance style.
  • eventually: And Chávez is looking to develop his natural gas reserves, which he believes may eventually supplant oil as the country's main export.
  • rapidly: This revised version rapidly supplanted its predecessor, and became the current form of the Wycliffite Bible during the fifteenth century.
  • completely: The experts generally agree that hearing aids cannot completely supplant sign languages.
  • quickly: The first Europeans to arrive were the Portuguese, who were quickly supplanted by the Dutch in the 17th century.