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supplaunt

supplaunt is the obsolete form of supplant.

Meaning of supplant

Verb

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.
    • Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
    Synonyms:
    dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To uproot, to remove violently.
    • Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.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...
    Synonyms:
    uproot

Forms of supplaunt

third-person singular presentsupplaunts
present participlesupplaunting
past participlesupplaunted
pastsupplaunted

Questions about supplaunt

What is supplaunt the obsolete form of?
Supplaunt is the obsolete form of supplant.

Words near supplaunt in the dictionary

  1. supplanteth
  2. supplanting
  3. supplantings
  4. supplantment
  5. supplants
  6. supplaunt
  7. supple
  8. supple jack
  9. supple jacks
  10. supple-jack
  11. supple-jacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supplaunt (page history and authors); supplant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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