supersede
supersede is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
- 2.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. Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion. Bentley.
- 3.(Old Law) To omit; to forbear.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- abstain
- abstinence
- alone
- apart
- aside
- away
- back
- behind
- cast
- cede
- cession
- course
- culls
- deed
- derelict
- dereliction
- destroy
- desuetude
- disburden
- discard
- dismantle
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispense
- dispose
- dispossess
- disusage
- disuse
- divest
- done
- down
- drop
- eject
- expropriate
- expropriation
- fling
- for
- forbear
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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