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Definition of "supplanter" []

  • Someone or something that supplants. (noun)

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Use "supplanter" in a sentence
  • "That the barbed shaft might sink deep and rankle from Andrea's belief that her supplanter was a girl of her tribe, but principally because, just then, she went down under the ruins of her own _olla_."
  • "But the supplanter was the upstart (as Henchard called him) who had mounted into prominence upon his shoulders, and he could bring himself to show no mercy."
  • "And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob — that is, a supplanter — for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and behold now he hath taken away my blessing.”"