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Usage

• supplant

  To supplant someone is to replace them with someone else, usually because the latter is more powerful or better in some way.

• supplicant

  A supplicant is someone who humbly and respectfully asks for something from another who is powerful enough to grant the request.

• supplement

  When you supplement, you add on some extra to something to make up for a lack in it.

• suppress

  When something is suppressed, it is blocked from occurring or kept in check in some way.

• support

  When you support someone in doing something, you help or aid them in doing it or agree with what they are doing.