Associations to the word «Supplant»
Noun
- Decline
- Saxon
- Dialect
- Favor
- Priesthood
- Latin
- Firearm
- Supplier
- Rite
- Roman
- Indignation
- Succession
- Extraction
- Mid
- Machinery
- Greco
- V8
- Default
- Alternative
- Hierarchy
- Rivalry
- Abstraction
- Usage
- Ancient
- Goddess
- Turk
- Reign
- Successor
- Rhetoric
- Latter
- Method
- Railroad
- Decade
- Mistress
- Highway
- Liturgy
- Emergence
- Script
- Divinity
- Triumph
- Bc
- Importance
- Imaging
- Dye
- Influence
- Alignment
- Jacob
- Protestant
- Pre
- Language
Adjective
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
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