W: (v) supplant [Related to: supplanting] (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"
S: (n) shift, displacement (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)
S: (n) displacement, displacement reaction ((chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound)
S: (n) displacement ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one)
S: (n) displacement, deracination (to move something from its natural environment)
S: (n) displacement (act of removing from office or employment)