supplanted

[suh-plan-tid] / səˈplæn tɪd /

VERB

displace, replace

Synonyms

STRONGEST

overthrow succeed supersede undermine unseat usurp

STRONG

bounce crowd eject expel force oust remove ring substitute transfer

WEAK

back up cast out cut out fill in force out front for outplace ring in sit in stand in swap places with take out take over take the place of

Antonyms

STRONGEST

give in surrender

STRONG

allow hold keep permit take in

Example Sentences

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Supplanted at fullback by Darrel Young, Mike Sellers’s status was tenuous throughout the preseason.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2011

Supplanted, I stepped aside; and felt manhood retreat before me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Supplanted by this niche of stone, So formal and so new; And worse, still worse, the elder bush, Where sang the linnet and the thrush— Say, has that vanished too?

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.

Supplanted in her husband's love; denied long the natural heritage of woman; paying the supreme price at last, only to be left here by the wayside alone, outside the family tomb.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Is it not hell to know his face no more, Supplanted, spurned and thrust without his door.

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon