supplant
vt. 把…排擠掉,取代; 代替
If a person or thing is supplanted, another person or thing takes their place.
He may be supplanted by a younger man...
他可能會被一個年齡比他小的人取代。
By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch.
到了 20 世紀 30 年代,手錶幾乎完全取代了懷錶。
1. take the place or move into the position of;
The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.
動量守恆定律可以取代牛頓第三定律.
The duke plotted to supplant the king.
公爵陰謀取代國王的地位.
The steam engine began to supplant the muscular power of men and animals.
蒸汽機開始取代人和動物的勞動.
TV and computers shouldn't supplant time with others and cyber chats don't develop social skills.
電視和電腦不應取代與他人共度的時光,而且,網上聊天並不能提高社交技巧.
As with handwritten letters, electronic communications have also tended to supplant actual spoken conversations with others.
如同手寫信件一樣, 電子通訊也有讓人們減少面對面交談的傾向.