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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 contained in some way.

• support

  To support someone or something, you give your help or agreement; for example, you may give money to help a person or add facts that agree with an idea.

• supplicate

  ask humbly (for something)

• supply

  the activity of supplying or providing something

• suppose

  express a supposition