supplant implies either a dispossessing or usurping of another's place, possessions, or privileges or an uprooting of something and its replacement with something else.
was abruptly supplanted in her affections by another
supersede implies replacing a person or thing that has become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior.
the new edition supersedes all previous ones
Example Sentences
The war has displaced thousands of people. The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents. The closing of the factory has displaced many workers. farming practices that displace large amounts of soil
Recent Examples on the WebTaken together, Disneyland is designed to displace us and to transport us to a land of imagination.Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022 Probably the best thing to have is a method of watering that doesn’t disturb your plants or displace them while growing. Jennifer Konerman, Sunset Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022 In order to film parenthood, directors Mills and Gyllenhaal displace it, making their stories not about sons and daughters but nephews, half-strangers, other people’s children. Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022 These experiments add substantially to our understanding of the fitness of variants and how one virus can displace another. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022 He’s been described as a guy who plays like a bull in a China shop, and one who already has good hand control and can easily displace opposing lineman. Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 19 July 2022 But at this point, the idea that artistic AI tools will displace workers from creative jobs—in the way that people sometimes describe robots replacing factory workers—appears to be an oversimplification.Wired, 14 July 2022 The second phase of the development was supposed to displace the Eaddys, whose family has lived for decades in a three-story rowhome at the intersection of North Carrollton Avenue and Sarah Ann Street. Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022 In this century, flooding and sea level rise could displace anywhere from 150 million to one billion people. Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
probably from Middle French desplacer, from des- dis- + place place