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supplanted

[ suh-plan-tid ]

adjective

  1. having been replaced or taken over by someone or something else:

    A few months later, in the midnight secrecy of a remote castle, the supplanted monarch met his untimely end.

    Having the latest gear is very, very cool, but buying the recently supplanted versions can save you a considerable amount of money.



noun

  1. Usually the supplanted. people or things that have been replaced:

    He took up with the peasantry's rebellion only to find that the supplanters were just as bad as the supplanted.

verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of supplant.

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  • un·sup·plant·ed adjective

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Example Sentences

We live in the world of Zero Dark Thirty; factual accuracy has supplanted fantasy technology.

But there was so much of myself that was kind of supplanted into that character.

After World War II, college football began to be supplanted in the imagination of New Yorkers by the professional game.

Defense hawks have been supplanted by debt hawks, and this policy shift is making itself heard.

All too quickly, of course, they are supplanted by giants, wizards, magical buses, and flying brooms.

That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

The Indian apparently did not realize at this early date that his was an inferior race destined to be supplanted.

It differs from the Manila fiber, which has now very largely supplanted it, by being much softer, though of less strength.

It has about one-third of the strength of Portland cement, by which it is now almost entirely supplanted.

In Athens, rhetoric, mathematics, and natural history supplanted rhapsodies and speculations on God and Providence.

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