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Definition of "supplanted" [supplanted]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of supplant. (verb)

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Use "supplanted" in a sentence
  • "(The three are clearly modelled on Bukharin, Zinoviev and Kamenev, the prominent Bolshevik leaders whom Stalin supplanted and executed)."
  • "It seems that at one time he even thought of abdicating in favour of his son rather than "see the Prussian title supplanted [73].""
  • "A cunning expression supplanted the anger that had shown so plainly upon his face but a moment before."