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From Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“under”) + planta (“sole”).
- (UK) enPR: səpläntʹ, IPA(key): /səˈplɑːnt/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnt
- (US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: səplăntʹ, IPA(key): /səˈplænt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)
- (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
- (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
- Synonyms: uproot, wrench out
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
to take the place of, to replace
- Bulgarian: изме́ствам (bg) (izméstvam), избу́твам (bg) (izbútvam)
- Dutch: verdringen (nl), vervangen (nl), opvolgen (nl)
- Esperanto: anstataŭi
- Finnish: korvata (fi)
- French: supplanter (fr)
- German: verdrängen (de), ersetzen (de), ausstechen (de)
- Maori: rīwhi, whakakapi
- Portuguese: suplantar (pt), substituir (pt)
- Romanian: înlocui (ro)
- Russian: вытесня́ть (ru) (vytesnjátʹ), выживать (ru) (vyživatʹ)
- Spanish: suplantar (es)
- Swedish: ersätta (sv), avlösa (sv), tränga undan (sv)
- Turkish: yerine geçmek (tr)