From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsupplantsup‧plant /səˈplɑːnt $ səˈplænt/ verb [transitive] REPLACEto take the place of a person or thing so that they are no longer used, no longer in a position of power etc SYN replace Barker was soon supplanted as party leader.→ See Verb table
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supplant• Brown instead hurt his heel in training camp, failed to supplant Albert Lewis and hobbled through an ineffective half-season.• The arrival of man-made instruments represented the supplanting and indeed deliberate transcending of nature by human values.• The usual summer crush of final exams was supplanted by the trappings of grief.• Adams, an excellent new pitcher, may supplant Hayes as starting pitcher by the end of the year.• But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance.• Simulation has also begun to supplant individual creativity.• He might supplant Jones before the year is out.• Sport utility vehicles have supplanted minivans in recent years as the top-selling family vehicle, according to trade experts.• Some would argue that New York has supplanted Paris as the center of new culture.• General Salan was supplanted soon after the invasion by General Henri Navarre.• Universities themselves have supplanted the intellectual leadership of the church which helped to create many of them.Origin supplant (1200-1300) Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantare “to defeat by causing to fall over with the foot”, from planta “bottom of the foot” 