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.

Simplified etymology

Supplant comes from Old French supplanter or directly from Latin supplantare, “to trip up,” formed from sub-, “from below,” and planta, “sole of the foot.” In Middle English it could mean either literally tripping someone or figuratively displacing them, with the latter becoming the usual modern sense.

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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