Associations to the word «Supplanting»

Wiktionary

SUPPLANT, verb. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
SUPPLANT, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.

Dictionary definition

SUPPLANT, verb. Take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca