supersede Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb take the place or move into the position of
supercede; supplant; supervene upon; replace.
- 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

L. supersedere, supersessum, to sit above, be superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. superséder. See Sit, and cf. Surcease.

imperfect & past participle Superseded ; present participle & verbal noun Superseding

To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion. Bentley.
(Old Law) To omit; to forbear.