Supersede

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supersede \Su`per*sede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Superseded}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Superseding}.] [L. supersedere, supersessum, to
     sit above, be superior to, forbear, omit; super above +
     sedere to sit: cf. F. supers['e]der. See {Sit}, and cf.
     {Surcease}.]
     1. To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.


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     2. To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of;
        as, to supersede an officer.
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     3. To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior
        power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to
        render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
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              Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known
              laws of natural motion.               --Bentley.
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     4. (Old Law) To omit; to forbear.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  supersede
       v : 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" [syn: {supplant}, {replace}, {supervene upon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "supersede":
     abandon, act for, change places with, crowd out, cut out, desert,
     discard, displace, double for, fill in for, forsake, ghost,
     ghostwrite, oust, pinch-hit, reject, relieve, replace, represent,
     repudiate, spell, spell off, stand in for, subrogate,
     substitute for, succeed, supplant, swap places with,
     understudy for