SUPPLANT


Meaning of SUPPLANT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ səplɑ:nt, -plænt ]

( supplants, supplanting, supplanted)

If a person or thing is supplanted , another person or thing takes their place. ( FORMAL )

He may be supplanted by a younger man...

By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch.

= usurp

VERB : be V-ed , V n

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