supplant
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- (British) enPR: səpläntʹ, IPA: /səˈplɑːnt/
- (America, Canada, Northern England) enPR: səplăntʹ, IPA: /səˈplænt/
supplant (supplants, present participle supplanting; simple past and past participle supplanted)
- (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
- Synonyms: dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
- (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.
- French: supplanter
- German: verdrängen, ersetzen, ausstechen
- Portuguese: suplantar, substituir
- Russian: вытесня́ть
- Spanish: suplantar
- French: détrôner, déposer, dézinguer, renverser, éradiquer
- Italian: detronizzare, rovesciare
- Russian: искорени́ть
- Spanish: destronar, derribar, derrocar
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