supplant
IPA: sʌpɫˈænt
verb
- (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
- (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
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Examples of "supplant" in Sentences
- The teacher may be supplanted by a younger man.
- This is the first sign that he will supplant her role.
- In upscale models, this pod was supplanted by a tachometer.
- Samsung Galaxy S4 could supplant Galaxy S3 in April of 2013.
- It does not supplant the needs of the normal consumers of this material.
- He willingly circumvents the rules in an attempt to supplant the Composer.
- It was eventually supplanted by the Gregorian chant in the eleventh century.
- Petroleum extraction has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy.
- After about 1620, marquetry tended to supplant intarsia in urbane cabinet work.
- BeiDou cannot be expected to supplant its successful predecessor instantaneously.
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