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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
supplant
    v 1: 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"
         [syn: supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon,
         supercede]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Supplant \Sup*plant"\, v. 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,
   n.]
   1. To trip up. [Obs.] "Supplanted, down he fell." --Milton.
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   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 prince.
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            Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the
            friend.                               --Bp. Fell.
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   3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a
      substitute in place of. [obsolescent]
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            You never will supplant the received ideas of God.
                                                  --Landor.
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   4. To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else.
      [PJC]

   Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow;
        supersede.
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Thesaurus Results for Supplant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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, spell, spell off, stand in for, step, subrogate, substitute, substitute for, succeed, supersede, swap places with, turn out, understudy for, unseat, usurp
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