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Answer : OUST
oust – v
remove and replace; “The word processor has ousted the typewriter”
SYNONYMS
banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, dismiss, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, kick out, out, rout, run off, throw out, turf (out) [chiefly British], turn out
IN A SENTENCE
The rebels ousted the dictator from power.
Large national banks are ousting local banks in many communities.
ETYMOLOGY
early 15c., ousten, “eject, dispossess,” from Anglo-French oster,ouster (early 14c.), Old French oster “remove, take away, take off; evict, dispel; liberate, release” (Modern French ôter), from Latin obstare “stand before, be opposite, stand opposite to, block,” in Vulgar Latin, “hinder,” from ob “against” (see ob-) + stare “to stand,” from PIE root *sta- “to stand, make or be firm.” Related: Ousted; ousting.