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Webster 1913 Edition
Supplant
Sup-plant′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Supplanted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Supplanting
.] [F. ]
supplanter
, L. supplantare
to trip up one’s heels, to throw down; sub
under + planta
the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant
, Noun.
1.
To trip up.
[Obs.]
“Supplanted, down he fell.” Milton.
2.
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 princeSuspecting that the courtier had
supplanted
the friend. Bp. Fell.
3.
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. Landor.
Syn. – To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.
Webster 1828 Edition
Supplant
SUPPLANT'
,Verb.
T.
Supplanted down he fell.
1.
To remove or displace by stratagem; or to displace and take the place of; as, a rival supplants another in the affections of his mistress, or in the favor of his prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.
2.
To overthrow; to undermine.Definition 2024
supplant
supplant
English
Alternative forms
- supplaunt (obsolete)
Verb
supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)
- (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
- (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
- Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
Synonyms
- (replace): dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
- (remove violently): uproot, wrench out
Translations
to take the place of, to replace
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to remove violently