SUPPLANT
supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon
(verb) take the place or move into the position of; “Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left”; “the computer has supplanted the slide rule”; “Mary replaced Susan as the team’s captain and the highest-ranked player in the school”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)
(transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
(transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
Synonyms
• (replace): dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
• (remove violently): uproot, wrench out
Source: Wiktionary
Sup*plant", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supplanted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Supplanting.] Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition