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单词 supplant
释义
supplant
verb[T]
formal
uk
/səˈplɑːnt/us
/səˈplænt/
toreplace:
取代，代替
Printedbookswillsoonbe supplanted bye-books.纸质书将很快被电子书取代。
Smallchildrencan oftenfeelsupplanted intheirparents'affections(= thattheirparentsnolongerlike them as much)when a newbrotherorsisterisborn.当弟弟或妹妹出生后，小孩子常常会觉得自己在父母心中的地位被取代了。
Synonyms
replace(CHANGE FOR)
supersede
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Replacing and exchanging
  • alternate
  • alternatively
  • bargainsomethingaway
  • change over
  • instead
  • instead of
  • lieu
  • make up forsomething
  • name
  • rep
  • represent
  • shoe
  • sing
  • someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
  • spare
  • step
  • step intosomeone'sshoesidiom
  • step into the breachidiom
  • sub outsomething
  • substitution
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(Definition ofsupplantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

supplant| American Dictionary

supplant
verb[T]
us
/səˈplænt/
to take theplaceof (something or someone):
Travelvideosdo not supplantguidebooks, but they can beusefulwhenplanningatrip.
(Definition ofsupplantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsupplant

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But, as the population burgeoned in recent decades, traditional economies faltered and were supplanted by agricultural production reliant on few species.
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The paper concludes with brief review of three leading explanations of why neoclassicism seems to have been supplanted by a new mainstream pluralism.
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By the late nineteenth century, the role of church groups in founding and maintaining such institutions had largely been supplanted by the state.
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The first originated in the 1850s and involved attempts tosupplantexisting verbal agreements made at the hirings with written 'characters' administered through registration societies.
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These old circuits were neither eliminated nor supplanted, but still play a role at some level of the language processes.
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The real is evinced by the absence of the real - in this case by the cyborg woman's replaced and supplanted limbs and organs.
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Descartes intends the big-picture theodicy to supplement, rather thansupplant, the free-will theodicy.
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It often happens that a textbook off the shelf quickly supplants a sketchy syllabus which may have taken much effort to produce.
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As a result, behaviorism supplanted psychoanalysis as the dominant clinical paradigm of the time.
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The spoken input is used tosupplantthe need for a general purpose object recognition module in the system.
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The fact is that by mid-century, the charismatic hero-expert was already being supplanted by a decidedly different breed of the civil servant.
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Indeed, distinct paradigms can coexist, and it might be argued that none of the paradigms has been entirely supplanted.
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Does itsupplantother forms of activity and knowledge?
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The prediction that long-necks wouldsupplantshort-necks cannot be made with certainty.
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Comtean positivism popularized this distinction between science and philosophy, but it also viewed science as having supplanted philosophy.
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