supplant

• supplaunt (obsolete)

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

• (UK) enPR: səpläntʹ, IPA^(key): /səˈplɑːnt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnt
• (US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: səplăntʹ, IPA^(key): /səˈplænt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt

supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)

1. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

   Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?

2. (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

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

• (replace): dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
• (remove violently): uproot, wrench out