Associations to the word «Supplant»

Wiktionary

SUPPLANT, verb. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
SUPPLANT, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.

Dictionary definition

SUPPLANT, verb. 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".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin