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. [1913 Webster]

2. To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. [1913 Webster]

Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster]

3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. [obsolescent] [1913 Webster]

You never will supplant the received ideas of God. --Landor. [1913 Webster]

4. To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else. [PJC]

Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "supplant": act for, bounce, cast out, change places with, crowd out, cut out, dismiss, displace, double for, eject, exchange, expel, fill in for, force out, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch-hit, relieve, remove, replace, represent, spell, spell off, stand in for, step, subrogate, substitute, substitute for, succeed, supersede, swap places with, turn out, understudy for, unseat, usurp

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

supplant v : 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" [syn: replace, supersede, supervene upon]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)