The woman in the video was dubbed a “Karen.” The term originally referred to an entitled white woman who tries to use her privilege or status in society to threaten or supersede someone in an argument.
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Supersede
//ˌsuːpəˈsiːd//
Synonyms for "supersede" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
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More general
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2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- замествам verb (take the place of)
- измествам verb (displace in favour of another)
Catalan
2 entries- reemplaçar verb (displace in favour of another)
- substituir verb (take the place of)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 代替 verb (take the place of)
- 替換 /替换 verb (take the place of)
Dutch
3 entries- opzij zetten verb (set aside)
- verdringen verb (displace in favour of another)
- vervangen verb (take the place of)
Faroese
3 entries- avloysa verb (take the place of)
- koma í staðin fyri verb (take the place of)
- troka burtur verb (displace in favour of another)
Finnish
2 entries- korvata verb (set aside)
- korvata verb (take the place of)
French
1 entries- supplanter verb (take the place of)
Georgian
4 entries- ადგილის დაკავება verb (take the place of)
- ადგილს იკავებს verb (take the place of)
- განდევნა verb (set aside)
- განდევნის verb (set aside)
German
4 entries- ablösen verb (set aside)
- ablösen verb (take the place of)
- aufheben verb (set aside)
- den Platz einnehmen von verb (take the place of)
Hungarian
4 entries- hatályon kívül helyez verb (set aside)
- helyettesít verb (take the place of)
- kiszorít verb (displace in favour of another)
- érvénytelenít verb (set aside)
Italian
3 entries- soppiantare verb (displace in favour of another)
- sostituire verb (take the place of)
- superare verb (set aside)
Māori
1 entries- whakatūnguru verb (take the place of)
Norwegian
1 entries- avløse verb (take the place of)
Polish
4 entries- odłożyć verb (set aside)
- unieważnić verb (set aside)
- zamienić verb (displace in favour of another)
- zastąpić verb (take the place of)
Portuguese
4 entries- sobrepor verb (set aside)
- substituir verb (take the place of)
- substituir verb (displace in favour of another)
- suplantar verb (displace in favour of another)
Russian
4 entries- вы́теснить verb (displace in favour of another)
- вытесня́ть verb (displace in favour of another)
- замести́ть verb (take the place of)
- замеща́ть verb (take the place of)
Spanish
1 entries- subseguir verb (take the place of)
Swedish
4 entries- avlysa verb (set aside)
- avskaffa verb (set aside)
- ersätta verb (take the place of)
- tränga undan verb (displace in favour of another)
Turkish
4 entries- ayağını kaydırmak verb (displace in favour of another)
- ilgâ etmek verb (set aside)
- yerine geçmek verb (take the place of)
- yürürlükten kaldırmak verb (set aside)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Malians need to supersede their ethnic fault lines.
Source: tatoeba (10134237)
The new rules will supersede the old ones.
Source: tatoeba (12604098)
Those older products have been superseded by our new range.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.