Supplant

Definition: Supplant

Supplant

Verb

1. Take the place or move into the position of; "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".

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Date "supplant" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Supplant \Sup*plant"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Supplanted; present participle verb or noun Supplanting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Supplant

Substitution

Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Crosswords: Supplant

Health

Conceivable, medical therapies can be developed to delay or supplant the need for corneal transplantation in cases of endothelial disease or trauma. (references)

Business

While discounting will continue to be a prime selling tool, there are signs that the market is settling down and in future years, new innovations in terms of higher levels of service are expected to supplant price, as retailers strive to achieve a competitive edge. While this is generally positive for consumers, it will also foster an increasingly competitive environment for retailers. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

The Japanese colonial era was characterized by tight control from Tokyo and ruthless efforts to supplant Korean language and culture. (references)

North Korea

Japanese colonial administration was characterized by tight control from Tokyo and ruthless efforts to supplant Korean language and culture. (references)

The Netherlands

The merger process, begun in the early 1970s to try to stem the tide of losses suffered by religiously based parties, was completed in 1980. The CDA supports free enterprise and holds to the principle that government activity should supplement but not supplant communal action by citizens. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

The version of the Minors' Code proposed by the FRG-led Congress has yet to supplant the outdated 1979 Code presently in force. (references)

Guatemala

Second, civil authority has been slow to supplant that of the Civil Defense Patrols, which during the armed conflict conducted summary hearings in the town square and publicly executed alleged criminals or guerrillas. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

In January 1998, a new "three pillar" pension system was introduced in which private funds initially augment and gradually supplant more of the current state-funded, pay-as-you-go public system. (references)

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Albanian

zëvendësoj (act for, commute, cover, deputize, displace, double, interchange, make up for, pre empt, replace, substitute, supersede, understudy), i zë vendin (displace, replace, replaceable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزع (dig up, disarmament, evisceration, extraction, plucking out, removal, remove, slough, snap, spring, strip, take down, take off, tear out), ‏حل محله, ‏خلف (after, back, backwards, behind, deposit, succeed, successor, supersede, tiller), ‏أزاح (bump, dislodge, displace, draw, poke, unsettle), ‏أبعد (alien, alienate, bounce, deport, distance, drive away, drive out, estrange, exclude, far, farther, hold off, oust, out of the way, outmost, preclude, relegate, send, send packing, stave off, take away, throw out, transport, ulterior, ultimate, warn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

измествам (dislocate, displace, luxate, offset, oust, unhorse, unseat), избутвам (bore, detrude, extrude, shove out), изпъждам (dispossess, expel, fire, oust, out, shoo, thrust forth). (various references)

Chinese 

代替 (Alternate, subrogate, Substitutional, Substitutionary, supersede, Superseded, Superseding, Supplanted, supplanting). (various references)

Czech

vytlaèit (dislodge, displace, eliminate, press up, squeeze out), vypíchnout, vymìnit (change, exchange, interchange, supersede, switch round, to exchange, trade), nahradit (compensate, make good, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supply). (various references)

Farsi 

تعویض کردن (Put, Shift, Substitute), جای چیزی راگرفتن , جابجاکردن (Dislocate, Displace, Heave, Replace, Reposit, Substitute, Unhorse), جابجاشدن (Metastasis), ازریشه کندن (Uproot). (various references)

Finnish

syrjäyttää (displace, oust, set aside, supersede), sivuuttaa (go by, overlook, pass, supersede). (various references)

French

supplanter, évincer. (various references)

German

ersetzen (compensate, compensate for, displace, reimburse, replace, substitute, supersede, superseding, take the place of, to replace, to substitute, to supersede). (various references)

Greek 

αντικαθιστώ (relieve, replace, replace by / with, spell, stand in for, substitute, supersede). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתפוס מקום (displace, preoccupy). (various references)

Hungarian

kitúr (grub, to bump, to root out, to root up, to supplant), helyettesít (deputize, substitute, supersede, to deputize, to fill in for sy, to replace, to substitute, to supersede, to understudy). (various references)

Indonesian

mengasak (insist, jam urge, replace), mendesak (adjure, badger, exhort, shove, urge, urgent). (various references)

Italian

soppiantare (oust, supersede), scavalcare (bestride, climb over, go ahead, jump, overtake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取って代わる (to supercede, to supplant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とってかわる (to supercede, to supplant). (various references)

Manx

cleiy fo (subvert, undermine authority, usurp). (various references)

Pig Latin

upplantsay

Portuguese

suplantar (exceed, obscure, outshine, supersede, surpass), substituir (displace, exist, relay, relieve, renew, replace, shift, stand in for, substitute, supersede, take the place of), tomar o lugar de (supersede). (various references)

Romanian

schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), înlocui (change, commute, cover, displace, do duty for, make good, replace, shift, supersede), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, cast away, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, take away, throw by). (various references)

Russian 

вытеснять (dislodge, oust). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zameniti (commute, exchange, fill in, mistake, replace, substitute, supersede, switch, switch over), istisnuti (extrude, press out, push out, squeeze out, supersede). (various references)

Spanish

suplantar (supersede). (various references)

Swedish

undantränga (force aside, force out of its place, push aside, take the place of). (various references)

Turkish

yerini almak (cut in, oust, relay, replace, sit in for, subrogate, substitute, supersede, take one's place), yerine geçmek (displace, replace, stand for, sub, subrogate, substitute, succeed, supersede, take smb.'s place, take the place of), gölgede bırakmak (cut out, dwarf, eclipse, Excel, outshine, overshade, overshadow, put into the shades, trump, upstage), ayağını kaydırmak (do, make smb. loose his job, put smb.'s nose out of joint, supersede), alt etmek (bear the bell, beat, beat smb. hollow, best, carry away the bell, get the better of, overwhelm, score off, score smb. off, stymie, top, worst). (various references)

Ukrainian

витісняти (crowd out, cut out, dislodge, displace, edge out, extrude, force out, oust, supersede), виживати. (various references)

Welsh

disodli (trip up). (various references)

supplantare. (various references)

supplanter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "supplant": supplantation, supplantations, supplanted, supplanter, supplanters, supplanting, supplants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supplant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: splant, subplant, supalite, supplante, surplant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pulsant.

-2 letters: palpus, plants, sultan, ulpans.

-3 letters: aunts, lunas, lunts, palps, pants, plans, plant, plats, pulps, punas, punts, pupal, pupas, sault, slant, splat, sputa, stupa, talus, tunas, ulans, ulnas, ulpan, unapt.

-4 letters: alps, alts, ants, anus, aunt, laps, last, lats, luna, lunt, lust, naps, nuts, palp, pals, pans, pant, paps, past, pats, plan, plat.

+1 letter: supplants, suppliant.

+2 letters: supplanted, supplanter, suppliants, supplicant.

+3 letters: populations, postnuptial, supplanters, supplanting, suppliantly, supplicants, unstoppable, unstoppably.

+4 letters: supplemental, supplicating, supplication.

+5 letters: depopulations, insupportable, insupportably, repopulations, subpopulation, supplantation, supplementals, supplementary, supplications, suppositional, unsupportable.