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   Supplant , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supplanted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Supplanting.] [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. [Obs.] “Supplanted, down he fell.”
   Milton.
   
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   To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
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   Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.
   Bp. Fell.
   
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   To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. [obsolescent] 
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   You never will supplant the received ideas of God.
   Landor.
   
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   To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else.
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   Syn. -- To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede.
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