Supplant vs Alter - What's the difference?
supplant | alter |
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
(obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
As a verb supplant
is to take the place of; to replace, to supersede.As an adjective alter is
.supplant
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Alternative forms
* supplaunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
- 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 outalter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)