supplant
suh plant
- v take the place or move into the position of
the computer has supplanted the slide rule
- Attempts to supplant the dialect of the tribals by the language used by the majority has resulted in the vanishing of the former.
- When the politics of coercion supplants the politics of dialogue, it is time for the aggrieved party to sharpen their knives.
- As the older performer, played unforgettably by Bette Davis, begins to realize what's up that the ingenue's real goal is to supplant her on the stage she issues a raspy .