(transitive verb)
noun - supplanter
Spanish - supplantar
origin - Middle English: from Old French supplanter or Latin supplantare 'trip up', from sub- 'from below' + planta 'sole'.
supersede and replace; to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like; basically implies a dispossessing or ousting by craft, fraud, or treachery and a taking or uprising of the place, possessions, or privileges of the one dispossessed or ousted.
the socialist society which Marx believed would eventually supplant capitalism.
you three from Milan did supplant good Prospero - Shakespeare
the pretty young wife finds herself in the humiliating position of having been supplanted by a brisk, unlovely woman - Bullet
eager to succeed Luis and even to supplant him - Belloc
The ministry gave no details of the talks but the meeting itself was an indication that Beijing wants to keep open lines of communication with the rebel forces that could supplant Gaddafi, even as it urges a political solution - The Zimbabwe Mail
But, supplant sometimes implies an uprooting and replacing rather than a dispossessing and usurping; in such cases trickery or treachery is no longer implied
his tutor tried to supplant his fears by arousing his sense of curiosity
don't claim that the Devine revelation has been supplanted . . . but that it has been amplified - Mackenzie
the architect, to serve the vogue, uptilts greenhouses thirty stories high on stilts, supplanting walls of stone with sheets of glass - Hillyer
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