supplant
Use Supplant in a sentence
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
University administrators that try to supplant courts are little more than vigilantes in suits.
The extent to which unmanned aircraft could or should supplant piloted ones will be debated for decades.
It takes a long time to completely supplant long-standing cultural artifacts.
Social media attempts to supplant that feeling, but so many cues are lost across the wires.
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