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Definition of "supplanting" [supplanting]

  • Present participle of supplant. (verb)

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Use "supplanting" in a sentence
  • "The Secretary's great resource lies in supplanting the banks."
  • "Yet he shies away from the idea of supplanting the CCTV gala."
  • "“He certainly hinted, that were it not for the idea of supplanting his brother, he would now, in consequence of his change of profession, be desirous that the word Rashleigh should fill up the blank in the dispensation, instead of the word Thorncliff.”"