supplant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take the place or move into the position of
    supercede; supersede; 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

WordNet

Sup*plant" transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Supplanted ; present participle & verbal noun Supplanting
Definitions
  1. To trip up. Obs. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton.
  2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
    Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. Bp. Fell.
  3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
    You never will supplant the received ideas of God. Landor.
    Syn. -- To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.

Webster 1913