[ US /ˌsupɝˈsid/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːpəsˌiːd/ ]
VERB
  1. take the place or move into the position of
    Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
    the computer has supplanted the slide rule
    Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left
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How To Use supersede In A Sentence

  • Some of these commentators build up dialectics into an alternative to all previous forms of logic, something that supersedes such ordinary reasoning as the simple syllogistic form of argument set out on the first page of this chapter.
  • Sometime after AD 73 this was superseded by a palace, built using many exotic imported materials and surrounded by gardens and landscaped parkland.
  • Only in later periods, when Queen Anne was superseded by Colonial Revival and Colonial Imitation, did gambrel roofs become synonymous with Dutch architecture.
  • In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
  • It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • There, Chandler concluded that the management of corporate giants had superseded market mechanisms as the defining element of economic activity.
  • Immediate business goals will supersede long-term goals for affirmative action.
  • Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
  • In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
  • Although the faraday, the measure of an electrical charge named after him (one faraday is equal to the charge of 6.02 × 1023), has been superseded by the SI unit coulomb, Faraday's name continues to live through the farad.
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