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supplanting

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Supplant  \Sup*plant"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Supplanted};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Supplanting}.]  [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.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  supplanting 
  n  :  act  of  taking  the  place  of  another  especially  using 
  underhanded  tactics  [syn:  {displacement}]




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