American English pronunciation
How to pronounce supersede
IPA transcription: [,supɚ'sid]
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Verb
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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”
Usage examples
- The Ioannina compromise was superseded by the provisions of the Treaty of Nice.
- He was at last illegally superseded, because of his political opinions.
- Fluorescent lamps have now largely been superseded
- It was established by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and subsequently superseded that body.
- It superseded Kopáč.
- It supersedes the previous standard, "Nomina Anatomica".
- Fluorescent lamps have now largely been superseded
- Essentially, it superseded the function of the diets in non-Hungarian lands.
- However more recent observations by two American astronomers have since superseded this result.
- The Union superseded and absorbed the European Communities as one of its three pillars.