meaning of supplant
1. To trip up.
2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
4. 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 teams captain and the highest-ranked player in the
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