Supplant

v. t.	1.	To trip up. [imp. & p. p. Supplanted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Supplanting.]
	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.

Verb

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supplant - 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" Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, replace

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

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