supplant

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In the process, he helped Combs 'Bad Boy label supplant Death Row as the biggest hip-hop imprint in America, and also paved the way to popular success for other East Coast talents like Jay-Z and Nas.

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  1. transitive verb To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.
  2. transitive verb To displace and substitute for (another): The word processor has largely supplanted electric typewriters. See Synonyms at replace.

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  • Yet now, you would completely supplant the consensus reached through the DOT's public comment and vetting period with your own vision. —  Buffalo Pundit
  • "As an academic I taught the beauties of the First Amendment for many years, so nobody is looking to supplant or run roughshod over it," Copps said in 2007. —  Reclaim the Media - www.reclaimthemedia.org
  • Twitter may not supplant Google or Live Search but it will become a more frequent tool in people's search arsenal. —  Tech Beat - BusinessWeek
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation to curb "excessive" employee pay at financial firms that receive government bailout funds, a measure that could supplant an earlier effort to heavily tax executive bonuses. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The then-governor was arrested Dec. 9 on a criminal complaint and U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald faced a Tuesday deadline to supplant it with an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury. —  KRQE TV
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supplant:   supplanting ·  supplanted
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  1. Middle English supplanten, from Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantāre, to trip up : sub-, sub- + planta, sole of the foot; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English supplanten, from Old French (and F.) supplanter = Spanish suplantar = Portuguese supplantar = Italian supplantare, soppiantare, from Latin supplantare, subplantare, trip up one's heels, overthrow, from sub, under, + planta, sole of the foot: see plant.
 

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