SUPPLANT


Meaning of SUPPLANT in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

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

He may be ~ed by a younger man...

By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely ~ed the pocket watch.

= usurp

VERB: be V-ed, V n

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