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displace
(Chemistry) To replace (an atom, radical, ion, or molecule) in a compound during a reaction.
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  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.
supersede
To remove or cause to be removed so as to make way for another; supplant
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  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
usurp
To practice or commit usurpation (on or upon)
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  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.
displace
To move, shift, or force from the usual place or position:
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  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.
replace
To provide a substitute or equivalent for
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  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):
supersede
To take the place of (a person), as in an office or position; succeed.
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  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
surrogate
To put in the place of another, especially as a successor; replace.
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  1. To put in the place of another, especially as a successor; replace.
Find another word for supplant. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for supplant, like: displace, supersede, usurp, remove, replace, cut out, displace, replace, supersede, surrogate and substitute.

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.

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