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[ verb ] take the place or move into the position of
Synonyms Examples "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left" "the computer has supplanted the slide rule" "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)The dark pigments of the early work were superseded by a brighter palette . (Anita Loos, No Mother to Guide Her....)A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola 's favors - or , even more serious perhaps , that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap . Related terms succeed assume substitute oust replace replace substitute replacement surrogate supplanting supersedure usurper |
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