Supplant vs Undermine - What's the difference?
supplant | undermine | Synonyms |
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
(obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 312:
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
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Supplant is a synonym of undermine.
As verbs the difference between supplant and undermine
is that supplant is to take the place of; to replace, to supersede while undermine is to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.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 outundermine
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Verb
(undermin)- Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
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