American English pronunciation
How to pronounce supplant
IPA transcription: [səp'lænt]
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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
- Now militants were supplanting Booker T. Washington, who had "steadily argued conciliatory methods".
- By this time, the party had been almost entirely supplanted by the Whigs.
- It may supplant the original game.
- It was later supplanted by the industry-wide Entertainment Software Rating Board.
- This definition was later supplanted by one based on the Weston cell.
- Nerio was later supplanted by mythologized deities appropriated and adapted from other religions.
- Supplanting Sean Casey, he was the regular first baseman throughout the playoffs.
- Applications in electronics, once important, have been mostly supplanted by silicon semiconductor devices.