Supplant
[sə'plɑːnt] or [sə'plænt]
Definition
(verb.) take the place or move into the position of; 'Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left'; 'the computer has supplanted the slide rule'; 'Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school'.
Typist: Stacey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To trip up.
(n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
Typed by Frank
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Undermine, overthrow.[2]. Displace (by stratagem), replace, remove, supersede.
Typist: Willard
Definition
v.t. to displace by stratagem: to take the place of: to undermine.—ns. Supplantā′tion; Supplant′er.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- Fleeming Jenkins that Gas engines will ultimately supplant the steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I don't want to supplant you in Miss Crawley's good graces. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I hate him for trying to supplant Mr. Franklin! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Most ingenious machines have been devised for picking cotton in the fields, but none have yet reached that stage of perfection sufficient to supplant the human fingers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This change, beginning about 1860 and running through a period of nearly twenty years, has gradually supplanted the old electro-chemical dualistic theory and established the present system. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The heated air which rises from furnaces is seldom hot enough to warm large buildings well; hence furnace heating is being largely supplanted by hot-water heating. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Wind and water as motive powers have been supplanted by steam and electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When these fine roads become the possession of a country light traction engines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Milton