What is another word for supplants?

Pronunciation: [səplˈants] (IPA)

Supplants mean to replace something or someone. There are various synonyms for the word supplants, such as displace, oust, overthrow, overtake, overrun, replace, substitute, and supersede. The word displace refers to the action of moving something or someone from its original position. Oust means to eject something or someone from a place or position of authority. Overthrow means to remove a ruler or government by force. Overrun refers to the occupation of a place by a large number of people or things. Replace means to take the place of something or someone. Substitute refers to an alternative that replaces something or someone. Supersede means to replace something or someone as being outdated or inefficient.

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Usage examples for Supplants

Manifestly the development of industry is largely dependent upon the cessation or restriction of warfare; and furthermore, as the industrial phase of civilization slowly supplants the military phase, men's characters undergo, though very slowly, a corresponding change.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske
After a fierce and stubbornly contested trial of wits and interchange of 'Billingsgate,' 'the Sausage-seller' beats his rival at his own weapons and gains his object; he supplants the disgraced favourite, who is driven out of the house with ignominy.
"The Eleven Comedies"
Aristophanes et al
The first of these purposes is quite consistent with the principles of men like W. von Humboldt, who contend that the best means of national prosperity is the cultivation to the utmost of the individual energy of the people, and who are opposed to Government interference because it represses or supplants that energy.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Supplants

  • When a new religion supplants an old religion, the gods of the old often survive as the demons of the new.
    Cyrus H. Gordon
  • Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
    Thomas Hardy

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