supplant

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sup=plant

CIDE DICTIONARY

supplant, v. t. [F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant, n.].

•  To trip up.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.  [1913 Webster]

  "Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend."  [1913 Webster]
•  To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.  [1913 Webster]

  "You never will supplant the received ideas of God."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

supplant, v.tr. dispossess and take the place of, esp. by underhand means.

Derivative

supplanter n.

Etymology

ME f. OF supplanter or L supplantare trip up (as SUB-, planta sole)

THESAURUS

supplant

act for, bounce, cast out, change places with, crowd out, cut out, dismiss, displace, double for, eject, exchange, expel, fill in for, force out, ghost, ghostwrite, oust, pinch-hit, relieve, remove, replace, represent, spell, spell off, stand in for, step, subrogate, substitute, substitute for, succeed, supersede, swap places with, turn out, understudy for, unseat, usurp

ROGET THESAURUS

supplant

Substitution

VB substitute, put in the place of, change for, make way for, give place to, supply the place of, take the place of, supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute, step into stand in the shoes of, jury rig, make a shift with, put up with, borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize, commute, redeem, compound for.