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supersede - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take the place of; replace or supplant.
- transitive verb To take the place of (a person), as in an office or position; succeed. synonym: replace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make void, inefficacious, or useless by superior power, or by coming in the place of; set aside; render unnecessary; suspend; stay.
- To be placed in or take the room of; displace; supplant; replace: as, an officer superseded by another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
- transitive verb To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb (Old Law) To omit; to forbear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive
Set (something) aside . - verb transitive Take the place of.
- verb transitive
Displace in favour of another. - noun Internet An updated
newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take the place or move into the position of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Middle English (Scottish) superceden, to postpone, defer, from Old French superceder, from Latin supersedēre, to sit on top of, abstain from : super-, super- + sedēre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle French superseder ("postpone, defer"), from Latin supersedere, from super ("over") + sedere ("to sit"). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that ‘c’ instead of ‘s’ (from cedere ("to go"), not sedere ("to sit")). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion.
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Examples
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Since when does the Greek origin of the word supersede the English meaning?
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive.
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I know Rich doesn't understand the word "supersede" but that doesn't mean anything to me.
Blast From the Past 2010
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People who can spell "supersede" correctly are few and far between.
Report: Obama Picks Daschle For Health And Human Services 2009
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Or you could keep the sense of the word in context, giving up on the basic-vocabulary aspect; you could, for instance, render it "supersede," which I think conveys the meaning well enough.
Related Words
synonyms (34)
Words with the same meaning
- abandon
- act for
- change places with
- crowd out
- cut out
- desert
- discard
- displace
- double for
- fill in for
- forbear
- forsake
- ghost
- ghostwrite
- omit
- oust
- pinch-hit
- reject
- relieve
- replace
- represent
- repudiate
- spell
- spell off
- stand in for
- stay
- subrogate
- substitute for
- succeed
- supplant
- suspend
- swap places with
- understudy for
- usurp
hypernyms (3)
Words that are more generic or abstract
hyponyms (8)
Words more specific or concrete
forms (3)
Forms
cross-references (2)
Cross-references
rhymes (78)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Aristide
- Bede
- Ede
- Gilead
- Mead
- Meade
- Read
- Reed
- Reid
- Sinead
- Snead
- Speed
- Swede
- Tweed
- accede
- agreed
- bead
- bleed
- brede
- breed
- cede
- concede
- creed
- decreed
- dede
- deed
- degreed
- disagreed
- exceed
- fede
- feed
- freed
- fried
- grede
- greed
- guaranteed
- heed
- impede
- indeed
- intercede
- keyed
- knead
- kneed
- lead
- leed
- lipide
- mead
- misdeed
- mislead
- misread
- need
- overfeed
- peed
- plead
- precede
- preceed
- proceed
- read
- recede
- reed
- reread
- reseed
- riede
- screed
- secede
- seed
- shaheed
- skied
- sneed
- speed
- stampede
- steed
- succeed
- swede
- teed
- thede
- tweed
- weed
jaltcoh commented on the word supersede
This is probably the word most frequently misspelled (by educated people) that would inevitably be caught by running a spellcheck.
April 24, 2008
sarra commented on the word supersede
I hope your intention is that supercede is the misspelling!
There's some brief exploration of the etymology and the reasons for the s/c muddiness here.
April 24, 2008