supplant

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to supplant

Third person singular
supplants

Simple past
supplanted

Past participle
supplanted

Present participle
supplanting

to supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)

  1. (transitive) to replace, to take the place of, to supersede
    Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
  2. (transitive, obsolete) to uproot, to remove violently
    • 1610: Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. — The Tempest, William Shakespeare

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[edit] Translations

to replace, to take the place of
to remove violently
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  • German: verdrängen, Rivalen etc. ausstechen
  • Arabic: يحل محل
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