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Another word for supersede

Verb

  1. To substitute for or fill the place of

    2. See also:

    substitute

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Another word for supersede

Verb
    2. See also:

    replace

    replace

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Sentence Examples

  • annually, and in course of time it will supersede the map of the separate states, based on older surveys.

  • In the latter sense, modern usage tends to supersede "officinal" by "official."

  • In May 1645 he was selected by the West India Company to supersede William Kieft as director of New Netherland.

  • He came to supersede self-government by consuls, to deprive the cities of the privilege of making war on their own account and to extort his regalian rights of forage, food and lodging for his armies.

  • We have not had an opportunity of testing this, nor Grubb's more recent models; but, should it be found possible to produce such images satisfactorily, without distortion and with an apparatus convenient and rigid in form, such micrometers may possibly supersede the filar micrometer.

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