supplant

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   take the place or move into the position of

   The new method may supplant the older classification.

2. 2
   verb

   To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

   Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?

3. 3
   verb

   To uproot, to remove violently.

   Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

From Middle English supplanten, supplaunten, from Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“from below, under”) + planta (“sole”).

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