Crossword-Solution: SUPPLANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Supplant | n. | To trip up. |
| Supplant | n. | 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. |
| Supplant | n. | To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SUPPLANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left | 1 answer |
| Supersede and replace | 1 answer |
| take the place of, oust | 1 answer |
| take the place or move into the position of | 1 answer |
| Remove from office forcefully | 4 answers |
| Replace another in a position or office by force or intrigue | 4 answers |
| TAKE place of | 4 answers |
| supersede | 9 answers |
| TAKE the place of | 9 answers |
| revolutionise | 14 answers |
| crowd out | 14 answers |
| revolutionize | 16 answers |
| Displace | 37 answers |
| usurp | 45 answers |
| Cut out | 47 answers |
| Replace | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUPPLANT (5)
That will supplant the other, which only comes from his puerility, from his not taking his position in the world—that of a rich young man of ancient stock—seriously enough.
Congress must supplant the evident sectional tendencies of the South by national dispositions and tendencies.
The critical moment for them is the moment at which they are able to supplant a rival, to win a cross or a new order.
Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he was disgraced and fell.
For Supplant with his slyhe cast Fulofte happneth forto mowe Thing which an other man hath sowe, And makth comun of proprete With sleihte and with soubtilite, As men mai se fro yer to yere.
Quotes with SUPPLANT (3)
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.
Although Higgins's men had finally received some badly needed supplies, some of his wounded were becoming critical, and the overall health of his troops continued to ebb. Meanwhile, the price among the 442nd's battalions paid to reach Higgins's men had reached gut-wrenching levels. And for General Dahlquist, panic would supplant his anger and frustration.
Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from th…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2005).