SUPPLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supplant mean? 

• SUPPLANT (verb)
  The verb SUPPLANT has 1 sense:

1. take the place or move into the position of

  Familiarity information: SUPPLANT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPLANT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they supplant    ... he / she / it supplants   
Past simple: supplanted   
Past participle: supplanted   
-ing form: supplanting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take the place or move into the position of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant

Context example:

Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school

Hypernyms (to "supplant" is one way to...):

come after; follow; succeed (be the successor (of))

Verb group:

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

put back; replace (put something back where it belongs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "supplant"):

deputise; deputize; step in; substitute (act as a substitute)

displace; preempt (take the place of or have precedence over)

usurp (take the place of)

oust (remove and replace)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

supplanter (one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another)

supplanting (act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics)

 Context examples 

All are supplanted sooner or later.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I could not bear to have Henry supplanted.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I believe my feelings are stronger than anybody's; I am sure they are too strong for my own peace; and to see myself supplanted in your friendship by strangers does cut me to the quick, I own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had never been supplanted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Instead of talking of Edward, they came gradually to talk only of Robert,—a subject on which he had always more to say than on any other, and in which she soon betrayed an interest even equal to his own; and in short, it became speedily evident to both, that he had entirely supplanted his brother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But you were so much better than I, so necessary to me in every boyish hope and disappointment, that to have you to confide in, and rely upon in everything, became a second nature, supplanting for the time the first and greater one of loving you as I do!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And here, in the very first stage, I was supplanted by a shabby man with a squint, who had no other merit than smelling like a livery-stables, and being able to walk across me, more like a fly than a human being, while the horses were at a canter!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important it had been.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A very few days brought the party from London, and she had no sooner an opportunity of being one hour alone with Harriet, than she became perfectly satisfied—unaccountable as it was!—that Robert Martin had thoroughly supplanted Mr. Knightley, and was now forming all her views of happiness.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)