supplant
verbUK /səˈplɑːnt/ · CA, US /səˈplænt/
Etymology From Middle English supplanten, supplaunten, from Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“from below, under”) + planta (“sole”).
1
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
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2
Obsolete To uproot, to remove violently.
- Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.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]:
- Derived terms
- supplantable, supplantation, supplantment, unsupplanted