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Replacement vs Supplant - What's the difference?

replacement | supplant |

As a noun replacement

is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

As a verb supplant is

to take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

replacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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  • The act of replacing something.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part

    supplant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * supplaunt (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
    • Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
  • (obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
    • Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

    Synonyms

    * (replace) dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from * (remove violently) uproot, wrench out