SUPERSEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supersede mean? 

• SUPERSEDE (verb)
  The verb SUPERSEDE has 1 sense:

1. take the place or move into the position of

  Familiarity information: SUPERSEDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERSEDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they supersede    ... he / she / it supersedes   
Past simple: superseded   
Past participle: superseded   
-ing form: superseding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take the place or move into the position of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant

Context example:

Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school

Hypernyms (to "supersede" is one way to...):

come after; follow; succeed (be the successor (of))

Verb group:

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

put back; replace (put something back where it belongs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "supersede"):

deputise; deputize; step in; substitute (act as a substitute)

displace; preempt (take the place of or have precedence over)

usurp (take the place of)

oust (remove and replace)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

supersedure; supersession (act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior)

 Context examples 

They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle topics were superseded.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The general declared he could say no more; the claims of Mr. and Mrs. Allen were not to be superseded; but on some other day he trusted, when longer notice could be given, they would not refuse to spare her to her friend.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself to speak, she, in whose mind every idea was superseded by Lydia's situation, hastily exclaimed, I beg your pardon, but I must leave you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He might be superseded by another; he certainly would indeed; nothing could be clearer; even a Robert Martin would have been sufficient; but nothing else, she feared, would cure her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy the three or four following chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attorneys might be set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)