supplant
11supplant — sup|plant [ sə plænt ] verb transitive FORMAL to replace something or someone, often as a result of being more powerful: Their concern is that central decision making will supplant local government …
12supplant — [13] Supplant has no connection with things that grow, even though it may be related to English plant. Etymologically it means ‘trip up’. It comes via Old French supplanter from Latin supplantāre ‘trip up’, hence ‘overthrow’, a compound verb… …
13supplant — [13] Supplant has no connection with things that grow, even though it may be related to English plant. Etymologically it means ‘trip up’. It comes via Old French supplanter from Latin supplantāre ‘trip up’, hence ‘overthrow’, a compound verb… …
14supplant — supplantation /sup leuhn tay sheuhn/, n. supplanter, n. /seuh plant , plahnt /, v.t. 1. to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like. 2. to replace (one thing) by something else. [1250 1300; ME supplanten < L… …
15supplant — Synonyms and related words: act for, bounce, cast out, change places with, crowd out, cut out, dismiss, displace, double for, eject, exchange, expel, fill in for, force out, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch hit, relieve, remove, replace, represent …
16supplant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. supersede, succeed, replace (see substitution). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. displace, supersede, usurp; see remove 1 , replace 2 . See Synonym Study at replace . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. replace …
17supplant — sup|plant [səˈpla:nt US səˈplænt] v [T] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: supplanter, from Latin supplantare to defeat by causing to fall over with the foot , from planta bottom of the foot ] to take the place of a person or thing so that… …
18supplant — [[t]səplɑ͟ːnt, plæ̱nt[/t]] supplants, supplanting, supplanted VERB If a person or thing is supplanted, another person or thing takes their place. [FORMAL] [be V ed] He may be supplanted by a younger man... [V n] By the 1930s the wristwatch had… …
19supplant — sup·plant || sÉ™ plænt / plÉ‘Ënt v. take the place of in an underhanded or scheming manner, overthrow, usurp; replace one thing with another …
20supplant — verb supersede and replace. Derivatives supplanter noun Origin ME: from OFr. supplanter or L. supplantare trip up , from sub from below + planta sole …
