supplanting
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verb (used with object)
1.
to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
2.
to replace (one thing) by something else.
lənˈteɪ
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| —vb | |
| (tr) to take the place of, often by trickery or force: he easily supplanted his rival | |
| [C13: via Old French from Latin supplantāre to trip up, from sub- from below + planta sole of the foot] | |
| supplantation | |
| —n | |
| sup'planter | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
supplant
c.1300, "to trip up, overthrow, defeat, dispossess," from O.Fr. supplanter "to trip up, overthrow," from L. supplantare "trip up, overthrow," from sub "under" + planta "sole of the foot" (see plant (n.)). Meaning "replace one thing with another" first recorded 1671. Interesting
sense evolution parallel in Heb. akabh "he beguiled," from akebh "heel."
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Example sentences
Grantees are reminded to be sensitive to supplanting issues.
Government policies, therefore, should respect and support family and civil society instead of undermining or supplanting them.
Let's make one mistake and then attempt to reverse the bad idea by supplanting it with another bad idea.
Now technology is on the verge of supplanting the human soldier altogether-with consequences that can only be guessed.
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