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verb

Supplant v. t. (past & past part. supplanted; pres. part. supplanting)

To trip up. (Obs.) "Supplanted, down he fell."

To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. "Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend."

To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. (obsolescent) "You never will supplant the received ideas of God."

To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else.

Synonyms: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.

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Etymology of 'Supplant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... accorded with the aspiration. It is melancholy to recall the idealist enthusiasms which preceded the Exhibition of 1851, and to contrast them with the realities of the present hour. Then the arts of industry and the competitions of peace were to supplant for ever the science of bloodshed. Nations were to beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, and men were not to learn war any more. And this was on the eve of the Crimea—the most ruinous, the most cruel, and the least justifiable of all campaigns. ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... corresponds with her—" "The confidence of his majesty must ever honor his subjects." "But," replied I, quickly, "may dishonor a husband." "How, madam! What is it you would insinuate?" "That your wife would fain supplant me, and that she is now the mistress of the king, although compelled to be such in secret." "Impossible," exclaimed M. de Rumas, "and some enemy to my wife has thus aspersed her to you." "And do you treat ...

— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... Shadow replied, as readily as before. "He is very much afraid of you. You are Korong. You may any day supplant him. He would like to get rid of you, if he could see his way. But till your time comes ...

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