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supplant 音标拼音: [səpl'ænt] vt. 排挤掉,代替 排挤掉,代替 supplant v 1: 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" [ synonym: { supplant}, { replace}, { supersede}, { supervene upon}, { supercede}] Supplant \ Sup* plant"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Supplanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Supplanting}.] [ F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one' s heels, to throw down; sub under planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. { Plant}, n.] 1. To trip up. [ Obs.] " Supplanted, down he fell." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. [ 1913 Webster] Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. -- Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. [ obsolescent] [ 1913 Webster] You never will supplant the received ideas of God. -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To remove ( a thing) and replace it with something else. [ PJC] Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. [ 1913 Webster] 36 Moby Thesaurus words for " supplant": act for, bounce, cast out, change places with, crowd out, cut out, dismiss, displace, double for, eject, exchange, expel, fill in for, force out, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch- hit, relieve, remove, replace, represent, spell, spell off, stand in for, step, subrogate, substitute, substitute for, succeed, supersede, swap places with, turn out, understudy for, unseat, usurp
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