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SUPPLANTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does supplanting mean?
• SUPPLANTING (noun)
The noun SUPPLANTING has 1 sense:
1. act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Familiarity information: SUPPLANTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
displacement; supplanting
Hypernyms ("supplanting" is a kind of...):
replacement; replacing (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)
Derivation:
supplant (take the place or move into the position of)
Context examples
But you were so much better than I, so necessary to me in every boyish hope and disappointment, that to have you to confide in, and rely upon in everything, became a second nature, supplanting for the time the first and greater one of loving you as I do!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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