Hypertext Webster Gateway: "supplanting"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Supplant \Sup*plant"\, 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.]
1. To trip up. [Obs.] ``Supplanted, down he fell.'' --Milton.

2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take
the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another
in the favor of a mistress or a prince.

Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the
friend. --Bp. Fell.

3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a
substitute in place of.

You never will supplant the received ideas of God.
--Landor.

Syn: To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow;
supersede.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

supplanting
n : act of taking the place of another especially using
underhanded tactics [syn: {displacement}]

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