How to use "supplant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "supplant" in popular movie and book plots

  • When Iñez hears this news, she is far from pleased and immediately lays in train some plan for continuing and honest man in office and doing away with the chance of allowing a weak and dishonest one to supplant them in the public service.  - A Change of Administration
  • is at a difficult crossroads as it should let your love Sebastian ( Eduardo Serrano ) to go to Caracas to supplant Piera, not knowing that it would be heavily harassed by Jonathan and Francesca, and she ends up discovering the plot armed to seize the fortune of Don Giacomo, who is ill and in a wheelchair.  - La sombra de Piera
  • Maude's husband, James, an undertaker, has been missing for several years, and she has been forced to make a living selling artificial flower arrangements in town; she hopes to supplant her income by opening the home to traveling guests.  - Funeral Home (1980 film)
  • His plan is to supplant Rothstein with the intention of stealing his bootleg, drugs and gambling businesses.  - The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
  • The Commodore tries to mollify Jimmy, even telling him that "the wrong man is running this town," implying that Jimmy should supplant Nucky, whom Gillian reveals was the one to bring her to the Commodore decades ago.  - Paris Green (Boardwalk Empire)
  • Quarles allies himself with local enforcer Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) and begins to supplant the local criminals when Raylan begins investigating.  - Justified (TV series)
  • Marquoz does not wish to take overall leadership, but he does assassinate and supplant the head of the secret police.  - Twilight at the Well of Souls
  • The process served to 'delete' Savage's and Akira's memories, and supplant them with falsified ones.  - Fifth Profession
  • Bernard Milan, the second-in-command of France's Counter-Espionage department, is out to discredit his chief Louis Toulouse so that he can supplant him.  - The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
  • He willingly circumvents the rules in an attempt to supplant the Composer.  - The World Ends with You
  • Spin is killed by a group of younger children who set up house in the woods behind Ben's house and supplant Spin and Phil in the collection business.  - Toward the End of Time
  • The Akitsu forces come back victorious in their campaign, and are greeted as victors, but victory is short lived, as Zera mounts an invasion against Union forces with the threat of nuclear attacks against Avalon by Professor Vladmir, the leader of the Neopax order who had seen firsthand the horrors of the previous world war and seeks to supplant both sides with the intention of creating one world government.  - Jet Impulse
  • He views Tokyo as a father figure, and his Yurine as a mother figure; and aims to supplant the city's role in this relationship.  - Karas (anime)
  • The leader of the Guards, Creon, wishes to supplant Ammu, the goddess of the moon, as the most worshiped of Atlantis' gods, replacing her with Sa'at, the sun god; he then wants to conquer the world in the name of Sa'at, using a new weapon that he has developed.  - Atlantis: The Lost Tales
  • Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), the long-time star of the daytime drama The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty); Montana connives to supplant Celeste as the show's star by promising sexual favors to its producer, David Seton Barnes (Robert Downey, Jr).  - Soapdish
  • During this, Scott wants to reconcile with Eric and offers him an opportunity to supplant Murray Berenson at the management company, having already convinced everyone else in the office to go along.  - Entourage (U.S. TV series)

Example sentences for "supplant" in interesting articles

  • If international users lack basic privacy assurances, foreign competitors will supplant US leadership in Internet innovation and digital commerce, thus undermining strategic economic and other security interests...  - NSA reform panel: Foreigners actually have privacy rights, too
  • Hijackings of data already had begun, making clear the need for a more secure alternative, but years of work failed to produce one that could supplant BGP. “All these proposals have died on the vine,” said Tony Li, an engineer who worked with Rekhter on refining BGP. Concern about the security risks inherent to BGP grew in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  - Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later (2015)
  • Hijackings of data already had begun, making clear the need for a more secure alternative, but years of work failed to produce one that could supplant BGP. “All these proposals have died on the vine,” said Tony Li, an engineer who worked with Rekhter on refining BGP. Concern about the security risks inherent to BGP grew in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  - Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later
  • Pennsylvania is likely to supplant New Jersey this year as the second-largest gaming state in the nation.  - The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
  • For that it needs a class beyond itself: the high-born genealogical peerage that aptitude testing was created to supplant with a cast of brainy up-and-comers.  - Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)
  • None of them seems likely to supplant Facebook on its own, but taken together, they form a pretty decent network of networks, a dispersed alternative to Facebook life.This is not a niche phenomenon.  - The Fall of Facebook
  • Pennsylvania is likely to supplant New Jersey this year as the second-largest gaming state in the nation.  - The Man Who Broke Atlantic City (2012)

Meaning of "supplant" in English

  • take the place or move into the position of
    Examples
    - the computer has supplanted the slide rule
    - Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school

Meaning of "supplant" in Hindi

  • छल से निकाल देना ( Chhal se nikal dena, chhal se nikaal denaa)
  • (दूसरे का) स्थान लेना ( (dusare ka) sthan lena, (doosare kaa) sthan lenaa)
  • हटाना ( Hatana, hatanaa)
  • जगह लेना
  • जड खोदना ( Jad khodana, jad khodanaa, zad khodana)
  • जगह लेना ( Jagah lena, jagah lenaa, zagah lena)
  • स्थान या पद ग्रहण करना ( Sthan ya pad grahan karana, sthan yaa pad grahan karanaa)

Synonyms of "supplant"

  • supersede
  • supercede
  • supervene upon
  • replace

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