SUPERSEDE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they supersede ... he / she / it supersedes

Past simple: superseded

Past participle: superseded

-ing form: superseding

Meaning:

Take the place or move into the position of

Example:

Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school

Synonyms:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "supersede" is one way to...):

come after; follow; succeed (be the successor (of))

Verb group:

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

put back; replace (put something back where it belongs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "supersede"):

displace; preempt (take the place of or have precedence over)

usurp (take the place of)

oust (remove and replace)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

supersedure; supersession (act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior)