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Oust vs. Supplant

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Oustverb

(transitive) To expel; to remove.

‘The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.’;

Supplantverb

(transitive) To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.

‘Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?’;

Oustnoun

See Oast.

Supplantverb

To uproot, to remove violently.

Oustverb

To take away; to remove.

‘Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted.’;

Supplantverb

To trip up.

Oustverb

To eject; to expel; to turn out.

‘From mine own earldom foully ousted me.’;

Supplantverb

To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.

‘Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.’;

Oustverb

remove from a position or office;

‘The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds’;

Supplantverb

To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.

‘You never will supplant the received ideas of God.’;

Oustverb

remove and replace;

‘The word processor has ousted the typewriter’;

Supplantverb

take the place or move into the position of;

‘Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left’; ‘the computer has supplanted the slide rule’; ‘Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school’;

Oust

The Oust (French pronunciation: ​[ust]; Breton: Oud) is a river in Brittany, France, right tributary of the Vilaine. It is 145 km (90 mi) long.

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