Definition of SUPPLANT

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replace, displace, supplant, supersede mean to put out of a usual or proper place or into the place of another. replace implies a filling of a place once occupied by something lost, destroyed, or no longer usable or adequate. replaced the broken window displace implies an ousting or dislodging. war had displaced thousands supplant implies either a dispossessing or usurping of another's place, possessions, or privileges or an uprooting of something and its replacement with something else. was abruptly supplanted in her affections by another supersede implies replacing a person or thing that has become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior. the new edition supersedes all previous ones

Examples of supplant in a Sentence

old traditions that were fading away and being supplanted by modern ways

Recent Examples on the Web

As petroleum supplanted whale oil, the city’s whaling families gave their names to the new textile mills. — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, "A reexamination of ownership in the age of the public corporation," 30 Aug. 2019 Oberg finished the season 6-1 with a 2.25 ERA and supplanted the struggling Wade Davis as Colorado’s closer Aug. 2. — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, "Rockies’ Kyle Freeland says his 2018 season was “no fluke”," 29 Aug. 2019 The $2 billion contest would not supplant the Artemis Program, said University of Southern California professor Greg Autry, who served on Trump's NASA transition team in 2017. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Newt Gingrich proposes a $2 billion prize for a human Moon lander," 19 Aug. 2019 This is a story that supplants a fictional moralistic binary with a more realistic take on the elasticity of identity. — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, "Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus," 9 Aug. 2019 By 2018, that number had more than tripled to 814 deaths as fentanyl, an extremely potent synthetic opioid, supplanted heroin. — The Economist, "Baltimore needs help to fix its crime problems," 1 Aug. 2019 In many ways, Poland is a country of nomads running from the evil of the past, its various ethnic populations repeatedly supplanting one another in its various regions. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," 29 July 2019 For those who doubt that any of this will work, Tom Lape, president of Mohawk, points to Tempur-Pedic and how its foam mattress supplanted springs and ignited growth in a very mature industry. — Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg, Time, "'Big Carpet' Is Betting This New Floor Covering Will Get Americans to End Their Love of Hardwood," 6 June 2019 The same day, Communist Party leaders watched as pro-democracy candidates in Poland supplanted Communist rule—with Pope John Paul II’s indispensable support. — Nina Shea And Bob Fu, WSJ, "Inside China’s War on Christians," 30 May 2019

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