SUPPLANT

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To trip up. [Obs.] "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton.

2.
v.

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.
v.

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.

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