This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for supplant

a-z
Verb

  1. To take the place of (another) against the other's will

      1. To move, shift, or force from the usual place or position:
      2. To take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause of or occasion for removing, pushing aside, etc.)
      3. (Chemistry) To replace (an atom, radical, ion, or molecule) in a compound during a reaction.
    See also:

    substitute

  2. To substitute for or fill the place of

      1. To provide a substitute or equivalent for
      2. To take the place of or fill the role of:
      3. To provide a substitute for (something broken or unsatisfactory, for example):
      1. To take the place of (a person), as in an office or position; succeed.
      2. To remove or cause to be removed so as to make way for another; supplant
      3. To cause to be set aside or dropped from use as inferior or obsolete and replaced by something else
      1. To put in the place of another, especially as a successor; replace.
    See also:

    substitute

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for supplant

Verb
      1. (Chemistry) To replace (an atom, radical, ion, or molecule) in a compound during a reaction.
      2. To take the place of; supplant or replace (a person or thing that one is the cause of or occasion for removing, pushing aside, etc.)
      3. To discharge from a job, office, or position.
      1. To remove or cause to be removed so as to make way for another; supplant
      2. To take the place of (a person), as in an office or position; succeed.
      3. To cause to be set aside or dropped from use as inferior or obsolete and replaced by something else
      1. To practice or commit usurpation (on or upon)
      2. To take or assume (power, a position, property, rights, etc.) and hold in possession by force or without right
      3. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force or without legal authority.
    See also:

    remove

    replace

    replace

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Both these works (now rare) are manifestly framed on the Linnaean method, so far as it had then reached; but in their arrangement of the various forms of birds they differed greatly from that which they designed to supplant, and they deservedly obtained little success.

  • His dynasty was destined to supplant that of the Merovingian house.

  • Accusations had been made against John of Gaunt more than once during the earlier part of Richard II.'s reign of entertaining designs to supplant his nephew on the throne.

  • He defends them against Zeus, who, in accordance with a widely diffused mythical theory, desires to destroy the human race and supplant them by a new and better species, or who simply revenges a trick in which men get the better of him.

  • He could trade upon Edwards precocious hatred of Marys religion, he could rely upon French fears of her Spanish inclinations, and the success which bad attended his schemes in England deluded him into a belief that he could supplant the Tudor with a Dudley dynasty.

More sentences →

Words that mention supplant in the Dictionary

Words near supplant in the Thesaurus