noun
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An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
example
Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.
verb
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To take the place of.
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Those older products have been superseded by our new range.
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To displace in favour of itself.
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Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
Examples of supersedes in a Sentence
This principle is important and supersedes all other principles.
The Copyhold Consolidation Act 1894 supersedes six previous copyhold statutes, but does not effect any alteration in the law concerning enfranchisement.
The objection that a copper plate shows signs of wear after a thousand impressions have been taken has been removed, since duplicate plates are readily produced by electrotyping, while transfers of copper engravings, on stone, zinc or aluminium, make it possible to turn out large editions in a printing-machine, which thus supersedes the slow-working hand-press.
This Agreement supersedes all other agreements, written or oral, between the parties as to the subject matter hereof.
This lien supersedes all other types of liens on the property so if the property owner does not repay the lien, the property is auctioned off.
See the very full article by Frankfurter in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, which supersedes his earlier biography.
Sometimes the gods of an older religion degenerate into the demons of the belief which supersedes it.
This supersedes artificial irrigation, and the plains so watered yield abundantly in rice, jute and mustard.
Geier (1668, 1681 et saepius) may still be consulted with advantage, but for most purposes Rosenmtiller's Scholia in Psalms (2nd ed., 1831-1822) supersedes the necessity of frequent reference to the predecessors of that industrious compiler.
From the earliest times two leading processes of retting have been practised, termed respectively water-retting and dew-retting; and as no method has yet been introduced which satisfactorily supersedes these operations, they will first be described.
It generalizes and supersedes classical physics, mainly in the realm of atomic and subatomic phenomena.
Where, therefore, there is animal pollution of any kind, more especially where there is human pollution, generally indicated by the presence of bacillus coli communis, purification is of supreme importance, and no process has yet been devised which, except at extravagant cost, supersedes for public supplies that of properly-conducted sand filtration.