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• supplaunt (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 supplanten, supplaunten, from Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“from below, under”) + planta (“sole”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: səpläntʹ, IPA: /səˈplɑːnt/
• 韻: -ɑːnt
• (米国発音, Canada, Northern England) enPR: səplăntʹ, IPA: /səˈplænt/
• 韻: -ænt

動詞

supplant (third-person singular simple present supplants, present participle supplanting, simple past and past participle supplanted)

1. (transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

   Synonyms: dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from

   Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?

2. (transitive, obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.

   Synonym: uproot

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.